Sound issues when running Firefox & Flash

[cuchumino]

When i load a site on firefox such as youtube, with media and sound, it blocks off any other program that uses sound on the system. I am not sure if there is a way to solve this.

For example, lets say load a youtube video, and while the youtube video is playing, I cannot load a song on amarok, or any other media player for that matter, or i cannot recieve a skype phonecall because skype says there is a problem with the audio driver. Also, if I close that tab on firefox (the youtube tab) and have other tabs open, it will still not work. To get sound, i have to close ALL firefox tabs (in other words, terminate firefox) AND THEN external programs wanting to use sound work.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

[Flipperrr]

Try out dmix or you could try and use arts or esd. Both do about the same (and are also use flags).

Check:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA/Omitted_Items#dmix
and
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA/Software_dmix_Configurations

[Oak]

Since the wiki pages are gone and I also have this problem, I bump this thread.
Did you find a solution?
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