March 16, 2008

Youtube/Stumble

So, I've been having a problem with Linux(Ubuntu) when trying to watch videos on either of these sites. The videos play fine. But, no sound at all. Any advice anyone?

2 comments:

Petr Mrázek said...

Hmm .. I don't really have Ubuntu, but try following this guide: http://www.macewan.org/2006/06/01/howto-firefox-flash-video-sound-on-ubuntu-linux-dapper/ .

It's old, but it might help ... Oh well

Another thing you could try is to create '.asoundrc' in your home folder and paste this inside:
#####################################
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix"
}
#
# Make OSS apps default to using dmix plugin too
pcm.dsp0 {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix"
}
#
ctl.mixer0 {
type hw
card 0
}
#################################
This will force all applications to use software sound mixing.

Make sure you have enabled 'show hidden files' -- any file or folder that begins with '.' in linux is hidden - usually that's some config files, so they don't get in the way.

Petr Mrázek said...

This looks promising too:
http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/06/08/native-pulseaudio-with-flash-9-fix-video-crashes/