On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:10 AM, david<gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rob wrote: >> On Saturday 11 July 2009 02:03:16 am david wrote: >>> Hmmm, I have no such problem with Flash on Debian Lenny. Many times, I >>> have a Flash music video playing in FF, switch it to the background, and >>> continue doing other stuff with the computer without any performance >>> impact at all. Must be a problem with Ubuntu. >> >> Well, I've no idea what Ken uses (and his problem is pretty different than >> mine), but I did mention I was using Jaunty specifically. It still works >> fine on Hardy (whose Flash is 9.0) and OK on Intrepid, both of which >> default to earlier versions of Xorg -- as appears to be the case with Lenny >> since Debian stable goes into feature freeze about what, 6 or 7 years >> before each release? So in a couple of years you may run into this >> problem, in Rocky or Scud or whatever they name it by then. > > Debian Etch shifted Sid over to Lenny within the past year, so this is a > much newer thing than that old Debian Stable ... Whatever, it's running > Flash 10. > > I suppose it could be a problem with Xorg ... > > -- > David > gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > authenticity, honesty, community > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > Firefox can be configured to use an alsa plugin or esd-compatible soundserver. Check the file /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc (or /etc/firefox/firefoxrc as appropriate). The line to use pulseaudio is "ICEWEASEL_DSP="padsp" (or FIREFOX_DSP="padsp"). With the alsa jack output plugin, or the pulseaudio jack output backend, you can even make firefox and its flash plugins go through jack. For what it is worth, I have a dual-core 3.2 gigahertz pentium 4 with 1.4 gigs of RAM in my main machine, and flash video playback often pegs one of my CPU's to nearly 100%. If there are more than three flash video objects active at once on one page it often stalls iceweasel to a complete halt, if not crashing it entirely (I presume it is some kind of race condition or re-entrancy problem with the Linux version of the adobe plugin). I work around this latter issue by using the flash-block plugin, which shows a play button for each flash object that does not load the flash plugin until you click on it. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
