[PLUG] Flash audio corruption?

Rogan Creswick creswick at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 21:06:31 UTC 2009


On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:56 PM, chris (fool) mccraw <gently at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 19:18, Mike Connors <mconnors1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm running Debian Sid. I'm thinking the problem lies in the flashplayer
>> plugin. Has anyone else experienced this?
>
> yup.  for the past couple of years, flash has worked really poorly on
> my 64bit machines (i got worse results with the native 64bit version
> than the 32bit version, and in opera as well as firefox).

I haven't run 64-bit in a long time, but I constantly have this
problem with Firefox, Chrome and Opera.  Firefox also has a problem
with the way spawned applications inherit *all* of Firefox's open file
descriptors, whether you need them or not.

     https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147659

This is why you might have to close, say, Okular or Acrobat, in order
to get access to your audio devices.

The flash audio-corruption thing bugs me continuously though.

--Rogan


> they're all
> varying versions of ubuntu, but sometimes the audio just disappears
> (well, it never starts, more like) or gets stuck in a
> techno-music-like-stutter of a half second or so of the actual audio
> stream.
>
> most of the 'missing audio' problems are attributable to something
> else having /dev/dsp open and not sharing, so i can often fix by
> killing that process, killing the plugin/nspluginwrapper PID, and
> reloading the page.
>
> youtube is most likely to work well, every other site that uses more
> than one flash widget (usually multiple banner ads) are most likely to
> show problems.  though actually, my problem is most often the flash
> player hanging (and freezing the entire browser, though the browser
> recovers after i kill the plugin) entirely rather than video
> continuing without audio in the middle of doing something.
>
> it's gotten so i browse without plugins enabled most of the time.  sigh.
>
> i just chalked it up to "flash on 64bit linux doesn't work well".
> perhaps this isn't the case, but i've never found a good solution,
> despite trying many workarounds as suggested in the ubuntu forums.
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