[PLUG] Pointers Needed Toward Help Source

[Luke Eckley]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 03:44:51PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   While I'm much closer to getting multimedia playing correctly here, I'm
> not yet there.
> 
>   I've upgraded two of three systems to Slackware-11.0; one's running the
> 2.6.18.6 kernel, the other's running 2.6.19.2. On both systems, xmms plays
> audio just fine. On both systems, the firefox-1.5.0.9 media connectivity is
> installed and calls for mplayer to be used with the various video formats.
> The videos display, but silently. I've tried (g)mplayer and (g)xine; both
> display the video but no audio. This holds for the reuters.com news site and
> downloaded videos as tests.
> 
>   If someone here can suggest a mail list, web site, or Usenet newsgroup
> when I might find some help, I'd appreciate the pointers.

Even though I think you already solved your sound problem I will share
what I did to solve my firefox sound problem.

I used ALSA's OSS compatibility layer program aoss. I don't know about
other distributions, but in Gentoo it is in media-libs/alsa-oss. Now
start firefox with aoss. In other words, on the command line or in
your shortcuts replace 'firefox' with 'aoss firefox'.

Luke Eckley
http://luke.xifos.org