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LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess

Posted Sep 19, 2008 14:56 UTC (Fri) by ewan (subscriber, #5533)
In reply to: LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess by drag
Parent article: LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess

And Adobe Flash does crash out my browser quite often.

As well as having a working libflashsupport Fedora also runs plugins inside nspluginwrapper, even on 32 bit installs. That means that flash runs isolated in its own process and doesn't take out your browser when it dies.

It is possible to get this right; if Ubuntu isn't doing it that's just an Ubuntu bug.

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LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess

Posted Sep 19, 2008 15:02 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Well this is Debian Lenny/Sid with epiphany-webkit.

Also the problem crops up in other applications that can support Mozilla plugins, like Liferea.

I will take a look at nspluginwrapper, though.

LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess

Posted Sep 20, 2008 6:35 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Just for the record.

I installed and got PulseAudio working in Debian. And everybody above was right.. flash 9 doesn't work for shit. If I do the "export FLASH_FORCE_PULSEAUDIO=1" I can get it to sort of work for firefox, but not for anything else.

So I installed the Flash 10 beta and it seems to be much much better. Works happily with pulseaudio, but I had to disable framebuffer compression with the Intel driver stuff to get it to work without video corruption (of the flash video, not the display). This was in Debian Sid.