Michiel wrote (in a different thread):
> kenny wrote:
>
>> I don't know about ubuntu, but in gentoo, flash sound wouldn't
>> work while I was using flash 7. I upgraded to netscape-flash-9 and
>> everything is hunky dory now. The problem is, your sound device is
>> being used by something else (lsof | grep /dev/snd). It's because the
>> old flash used oss, I think, and the new one uses alsa.
>
> I wish I could say the same. I run Gentoo and can't get any sound out of
> Firefox. I already upgraded to netscape-flash-9. I enabled ALSA support
> and OSS support in the kernel, installed alsa-oss... I'm out of ideas.

I'm (roughly) in the same boat. This seems to be a topic in which quite some people took interest, so by this I'm starting a new thread.

If anyone has ideas or pointers, please post here - thanks!


Andrei

Try using the Video Downloader firefox extension to download the video ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/ ), and then use mplayer to play the video.

~ Clay

Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
> If anyone has ideas or pointers, please post here - thanks!
> 
> 
> Andrei

Clay Smith wrote:

> Try using the Video Downloader firefox extension to download the video ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/ ), and then use mplayer to play the video.

Of course, but that's not the point. We just want the sound to work in Firefox. :)

Anyway, I've watched part of the video with Video Downloader. He's just repeating the D documentation, and I've read that already.

-- 
Michiel

Michiel wrote:
> Anyway, I've watched part of the video with Video Downloader. He's just
> repeating the D documentation, and I've read that already.

There was also some talk about future directions, IIRC mostly near the end.

I have gentoo, and I have flash working too (video and audio). I have
tested firefox and konqueror, without problems.
I know that can be "problems" with gentoo 64bit (I have amd64), but
gentoo users have solved flash problems from a while..
The best thing is to upgrade to flash 9 (the official version for linux
was relased in january 17, 2007), many audio problems has been fixed
(from flash 9 beta2).

Alberto wrote:

> I have gentoo, and I have flash working too (video and audio). I have
> tested firefox and konqueror, without problems.
> I know that can be "problems" with gentoo 64bit (I have amd64), but
> gentoo users have solved flash problems from a while..
> The best thing is to upgrade to flash 9 (the official version for linux
> was relased in january 17, 2007), many audio problems has been fixed
> (from flash 9 beta2).

I've used Flash 9 now for a couple of months. Is the 'official' version not in portage yet?

-- 
Michiel

> I've used Flash 9 now for a couple of months. Is the 'official' version not in portage yet?
> 
there is net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.31.0, that is stable: KEYWORDS="-* amd64 x86"

that from the adobe site:

 Version: 9,0,31,0
 Platform: Linux
 Browser: Firefox, Mozilla, SeaMonkey
 Date Posted: 1/16/2007
 Language: English

it is the lastest flash version (and the ufficial)

Alberto wrote:

>> I've used Flash 9 now for a couple of months. Is the 'official' version not in portage yet?
>>
> there is net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.31.0, that is stable: KEYWORDS="-* amd64 x86"
> 
> that from the adobe site:
> 
>  Version: 9,0,31,0
>  Platform: Linux
>  Browser: Firefox, Mozilla, SeaMonkey
>  Date Posted: 1/16/2007
>  Language: English
> 
> it is the lastest flash version (and the ufficial)

Right. I've used that version for a good while now. The sound still doesn't work.

-- 
Michiel

> Right. I've used that version for a good while now. The sound still doesn't work.
> 
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-537058-highlight-flash+audio.html

99% it's a configuration problem, for example, have you compiled/loaded oss module?

Frits van Bommel wrote:
> Michiel wrote:
>> Anyway, I've watched part of the video with Video Downloader. He's just
>> repeating the D documentation, and I've read that already.
> 
> There was also some talk about future directions, IIRC mostly near the end.

yes -- like returning tuples!  That's the first I've heard that it's on Walter's todo list.

--bb