On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 11:18 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > Somehow XMMS and Firefox (or rather Firefox media plugins) seem to > compete over sound resources. > > If I start XMMS and then, say, go to YouTube to watch a video, there's > no sound from the browser. I have to kill XMMS, browse again, then it > works. > I am under the impression that it only happens with Flash movies, but > those are anyway the only ones that play directly in the browser - for > the other formats I use the MediaPlayerConnectivity plugin for Firefox > and configured it to launch Xine for WMV, Qt and Real movies. > > What's the cause and how can I fix it? It's because your card lacks hardware mixing support and Flash only supports the OSS API (/dev/dsp) which bypasses ALSA's software mixing. The only solution is to get Flash to support ALSA natively, or get a hardware mixing soundcard. You might be able to work around this limitation of Flash by setting FIREFOX_DSP to "aoss" in /etc/firefox/firefoxrc. Lee
