LMCBoy
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Joined: 30 Aug 2002
Posts: 191
Location: San Ramon, CA
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 Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 8:45 am Post subject: pulseaudio + gstreamer + KDE = crash |
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Greetings!
For a while, I have been struggling to get audio working in the flash plugin for firefox (it's been working in the rest of my KDE desktop). My system: 64-bit, on-board nforce2 audio, using HDMI for audio output.
I think the issue is that the flash plugin doesn't know to use the HDMI port. It may be sending its audio to the "regular" audio port, which I am not using. This despite my asound.conf file having been set up properly to point pcm.!default to the HDMI port (as evidenced by working HDMI audio on the rest of the desktop).
In any case, I finally found a way to enable audio in flash, on these very forums: by installing pulseaudio, setting the pulseaudio USE flag, and modifying my asound.conf file thusly:
| Code: | pcm.!default {
type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
type pulse
}
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When I do that, eureka! I get audio in my youtube videos. Huzzah, cigars all around.
Except. Now most of my KDE apps crash, with error messages implicating gstreamer and phonon. Cue gnashing of teeth and mutterings about nothing ever (ever!) just working.
Anyway, I just realized I can get audio working with the flash plugin, *and* still have a functional KDE desktop, by switching KDE's backend audio from gstreamer to xine. So, problem solved, I guess. But why am I painted into such a weird corner of arcane audio parameter space? Is anyone aware of a way to solve this without resorting to pulseaudio?
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