Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: No audio from web broadcasts

[Conway S. Smith]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:59:12 -0700
"Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 10/23/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    One my AMD64 machine I've started having trouble with audio from
> > different investment sites. Here is one where the presentation runs
> > but I get no audio.
> >
> > http://www.redoption.com/shadow_video.php
> >
> >    Anyone else manage to get the audio? If so maybe we could compare
> > differences in setups.
> >
> >    This does, of course, work on my Windows box so I can watch there
> > for now. I'm suspecting that they updating something on the
> > transmission end and now Linux is behind again.
> >
>
> Probably should have mentioned that I'm using firefox-bin:
>
> lightning ~ # emerge -pv mozilla-firefox-bin
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.5.0.7  LINGUAS="-ar
> -ca -cs -da -de -el -en_GB -es -es_AR -es_ES -fi -fr -ga -ga_IE -he
> -hu -it -ja -ko -mk -nb -nb_NO -nl -pl -pt_BR -ro -ru -sk -sl -sv
> -sv_SE -tr -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB
>
> Total size of downloads: 0 kB
> lightning ~ #
>
>
> When the video is running I do not see any additional processes
> getting started. Not sure what technology is delivering this stuff.
> Flash? Something else?
>

Yeah, it's using Flash.  It played for me, both video &
audio, just fine, using mozilla-firefox-bin-1.5.0.7,
mozilla-launcher-1.52-r1 w/ USE flag aoss, and netscape-flash-7.0.68.
The things I'd check would be mixer settings, for both ALSA (alsamixer)
and OSS (rexima, aumix, etc.).  Also, make sure mozilla-launcher has
the aoss USE flag, which will make it use the aoss wrapper script for
ALSA's OSS compatibility.  Are you using the Flash9 beta, by any chance?
I doubt it would affect your audio, but if nothing else helps it would
be something else to check.


Good luck,
Conway S. Smith