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Offline thejones

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intermittent sound/flash issue
« on: January 25, 2012, 08:41:51 PM »
Ok, here's the deal.

I have a fresh install of core plus, running from a 4gig USB stick, on a Compaq v6120us. Nothing fancy. I installed chromium for a web browser, and then installed flash11 and oss. That's when things got weird.

I get/don't get sound on youtube videos, seemingly at random. On some videos the sound works, and on others it doesn't, and I can't see a correlation/pattern to it. It's not just certain users, or quality settings. Like I said, it seems to be random, but I don't see how that possible.

I doubt anyone is going to have a magic pill, but a little help on where to start would be very much appreciated.

I've already read through the FAQ, and I have searched the forums. There are similar flash/sound issue out there, but I didn't see anything quite like this.

Any ideas?

Thanks for looking.

Offline AmatCoder

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Re: intermittent sound/flash issue
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2012, 10:48:11 PM »
Sometimes, Youtube uses HTML5 player instead Flash player...You can see which is used with right-click on the video.

And you can change this behaviour here:
http://www.youtube.com/html5

Problem is that Chromium does not support OSS, you need alsa for HTML5 sound playback:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=19470

Firefox does not either.

Offline curaga

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Re: intermittent sound/flash issue
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2012, 06:32:09 AM »
With Firefox, it used to be that the sound lib they use does have OSS support, but it can only compile support for one type in - they default to alsa for obvious reasons.

I don't know if this is still the case, but if so, one can build an OSS firefox by editing the sound library's header.
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