Audio/flash issues after last night's updates

[dibl]

Anyone else notice some new weirdness today? Youtube is showing the video, but not playing the audio, for me. My audio system passes all normal tests -- Amarok and alsaplayer are fine. The following quick check shows most streaming audio/video works:

cnn.com
abcnews.com
foxnews.com

However, BBC World Service radio, which was playing in mplayer yesterday doesn't care to play in mplayer or vlc today.



Could be Firefox too -- I'll try Konqueror and see what happens.

[giricz81]

Re: Audio/flash issues after last night's updates

I have the same problem. I am running Kubuntu 8.10 amd64. I noticed the issue after upgrades from 2.6.27-7 to 2.6.27-9. I tried to uninstall (purge) vlc and its components, but everything is the same. Amarok plays mp3 flawesly but vlc cannot play any audio, only video output is available. No plugins like ESD etc. won't help. Sound in flash worked for me before updates. I hope they fix it.

[dibl]

Re: Audio/flash issues after last night's updates

Hmmmmm -- I still have 2.6.27-7 -- I have not run updates today. Everything is working perfectly here ... perhaps I would be wise to wait a bit .....

[giricz81]

Re: Audio/flash issues after last night's updates

I don't know why and how but right now I can hear sound on youtube.com I will try VLC player ... Linux also has its WOW, not only Vista ... vlc produce sound too! Amazing ... I didn't do anything since last my post.

[dibl]

Re: Audio/flash issues after last night's updates

Amazing ... I didn't do anything since last my post.

You gotta love a system that fixes itself!

[giricz81]

Re: Audio/flash issues after last night's updates

you bet !!!

[dibl]

Re: Audio/flash issues after last night's updates

My Firefox was slowing down, and showing increasing weirdness over the past few days. Changing tabs got sloooooooowwwwwwwwww. Tried to watch a youtube video of the Bangles singing "Manic Monday" and got some goofy message about "not allowed in your country".



Long story short, and if you're running 64-bit, this is your opportunity to install the new 64-bit flashplugin and start fresh. So, here's your procedure:

1. In Firefox, Bookmarks>Organize>Import and Backup>Export HTML and export your bookmarks to your home folder (the default location).

2. Download the new 64-bit flashplugin here. Save it in your home or Desktop folder.

3. Shut down Firefox and open Dolphin.

4. In Dolphin, delete (send to trash) the hidden .kde and .mplayer folders. I say ".mplayer" because I think the mplayer plugin was part of the problem. If you've got special mplayer settings, then you'd better rename the .mplayer folder and save it with a different name, so you can recover your settings.

5. Open the Konsole and

sudo apt-get remove --purge firefox

6. In the Konsole,

cd /tmp

and make a new directory

sudo mkdir fp

then change to that directory

cd fp

and copy the flashplayer tarball

sudo cp /home/user/Desktop/libflash{TAB to complete} .

Note the period which tells the shell to copy the file to the current directory.

7. Now

sudo tar -xvf libfl{TAB to complete}

and you will observe, with

ls

that the file libflashplayer.so is in the directory. Copy that file to the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory.

8. Now you can reinstall firefox with

sudo apt-get install firefox && sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer

9. Fire up Firefox, import your bookmarks, and discover the joy!