Tiny Core Linux
Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: thejones 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.
-
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 (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 (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=19470)
Firefox does not either.
-
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.