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pulseaudio package

web pages with video cause my system to lose audio

Asked by simon on 2009-04-30

whenever i open a web page which has video in it (Youtube etc) i lose audio in all my other apps, vlc amarok audio preview etc. I have to restart to get audio back. i have an acer aspire 5570 laptop and have had this problem through several ubuntu distro updates up to 8.04

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Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Answered

For:: Ubuntu pulseaudio Edit question

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Last query:: 2009-04-30

Last reply:: 2009-08-29

Arnaudus (a-lerouzic) said on 2009-04-30:

This looks very similar to bug #254405. You might find advice in the bug comments.

Sam_ (and-sam) said on 2009-04-30:

I use Hardy 8.04 with pulseaudio and package 'libflashsupport', but I don't have flashplugin-nonfree, because of 64bit, I use Adobe. No problems here running separate apps at the same time.

btw. YouTube videos can also be watched with Totem. Sidebar - dropdown list - YouTube

Reference:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843012
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/TroubleShooting