On Friday 04 August 2006 20:33, Arnold Krille wrote: > 2006/8/4, Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Somehow XMMS and Firefox (or rather Firefox media plugins) seem to > > compete over sound resources. > > What's the cause and how can I fix it? > > The reason is that Flash and xmms both use old OSS for sound, which > allows only one app to access the soundcard at a time. Configure your > XMMS to use alsa and start firefox inside an aoss-environment with the > command "aoss firefox" instead of plain "firefox". > > And bug the authors of every app that is still using OSS as default on > linux... > > Arnold Hi Arnold. Seeing another post suggesting using aoss for the webbrowsers, I changed the command for opera to aoss opera. I'm using a realplayer plugin on it for the BBC radioplayer from bbc.co.uk. But what I am finding with aoss, is that there is now quite a lot of crackling on the sound. A bit like the sound of electrical sparks. Now I can listen to Internet radio, and listen to music at the same time, which isn't easy, but at least it proves that starting opera with aoss works. The problem I had was listening to Internet radio, using realplayer, and using Gaim at the same time. The realplayer plugin would grab the soundcard, and Gaim had no sounds. When I ended the Internet radio session, Gaim would play all it's sounds from the beginning of it's session. all a bit bizarre, and quite funny. Nigel. This is using an Ensoniq card (ens1371 driver)
