Comment 8 for bug 254405

To be honest, I don't remember whether I installed the Flash plug-in
separately. All I remember is that I didn't explicitly ask to install it --
probably it got included when I selected some other ones to install.
Nevertheless, I think, that doesn't matter now.

I think I was using ALSA when I first discovered the problem, and then
searched around for restarting the sound driver alone. This brought me to
PulseAudio and I chose PulseAudio since then (for no obvious reasons
though).

Now, I changed everything to ALSA, as you suggested. I opened a YouTube site
with a flash media streaming. Meanwhile, I tried to playback a video with
mplayer. I found that the mplayer video was frozen, until I close the
firefox page with the YouTube video! To repeat, I'm using ALSA this time
(but neither logged out nor restarted the laptop after I changed the sound
settings) .

Let me know if I can provide you more details.

Thanks
Jeenu

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Parthan <email address hidden>wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.
>
> For your kind information, flashplugin-nonfree come as a part of ubuntu-
> restricted-extras which is not installed by default as this is a non-
> free plugin. When you try to play a media which requires non-free
> plugin, you are intimated of the same and you may wish to install it or
> not as per your choice. If you agree to get this non-free plugin
> installed, it installs the plugin for you.
>
> Yes, Pulseaudio is known to have problems when the flashplugin-nonfree
> is also installed. Hence the general suggestion is to use ALSA or ESD
> as the sound server. What we would like to confirm is, when you filed
> this bug where you using Pulseaudio or ALSA? Can you also confirm that
> the bug doesn't occur when ALSA is chosen? Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> No media works when a flash video is being streamed in Firefox. Some times
> audio freezes afer streaming is finshed
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/254405
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in "alsa-driver" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> When a flash video is being streamed in Firefox, I can't play any other
> media on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Mplayer video seems non-progressing and Amarok
> player just hangs, until the page containing the video is close in Firefox.
>
> At times there were instances where, Pidgin messenger tried to alert
> incoming message, and later the whole sound froze. I could restore the sound
> only after restarting the X (I don't know how to restart the sound driver
> alone). After this freezing happens (of course after the flash video page is
> closed in Firefox), mplayer plays back only video without any audio; and
> Amarok player displays a dialog saying it couldn't initialize any sound
> drivers.
>
> Other people are also facing the same issue. There's a thread in Ubuntu
> forums, to which none has replied yet:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5488506
>

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Thanks
Jeenu