On 5/31/07, CJ van den Berg <cj at vdbonline.com> wrote: > > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 08:47:59PM -0400, Paul Jones wrote: > > Hi, I have my flash video working through Iceweasel and using > Pulseaudio. > > The problem is that the audio and video are not synchronized. I have > been > > able to achieve perfect synchronization in the past but not since I > > reinstalled Debian. > > > > I used to have these same synchronization problems in the past when I > would > > kill the pulseaudio server and restart it from the terminal. Flash video > on > > Youtube and other sites would go out of sync but videos played on my own > > system would stay in sync. The only way I would achieve synchronization > is > > by restarting the computer. > > > > Now pulseaudio does not start automatically anymore unless I edit the > > variable in /etc/default/pulseaudio and when Pulseaudio starts it does > not > > show up in the system monitor like it used to. Pulseaudio starts > > automatically but it is not listed in the system monitor and iceweasel > > flash > > videos are out of sync. > > If flash is going out of sync it probably means that it's communicating > with > pulseaudio via the esound protocol (assuming it's communicating with > pulseaudio at all), which is know to suck at getting synchronization > right. > This maybe a permissions problem. Try starting an audio application or > two > from the command line and check for permission denied errors from pulse. > Totem would be a good candidate, or perhaps paplay or something. > > > /etc/default/pulseaudio mentions that is not the recommended way of > > starting > > pulseaudio, so what is the recommended way now. editing the conf files > for > > autospawn and daemonize doesn't work. > > > > Anyone have any recommendations. > > The recommended way of starting pulseaudio is via gnome-session. In other > words, go to System->Preferences->Sounds->Sounds and check the "Enable > software sound mixing (ESD)" option. Then Gnome will start pulseaudio > automatically when you login. This requires of course that you install > pulseaudio-esound-compat. > > > On a less important note, my gnome system sounds are not working. I'd > like > > some suggestions for those too. > > In the same dialog where you turn on ESD you can also turn on Gnome system > sounds. > > -- > CJ van den Berg > > mailto:cj at vdbonline.com > xmpp:cj at vdbonline.com > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGXpm1l3pZXfh0CHIRAvl+AJoDTpCPA1UrJm6NVZoVFo17EddyLwCgzlNZ > V06U5qUS5zQ2/vJYGo1fFK8= > =5JKZ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss HI again, I should have mentioned that I already did all the settings in the gnome sound preferences but the system sounds still do not work. I shut off the pulseaudio init script and pulseaudio does not start automatically, I have to start it from the terminal. Both Software Sound Mixing and System Sounds are enabled in the preferences but still nothing. I think you may be right about flash going to ESD. When I run iceweasel from the terminal it says ~/.esd-auth file exists then plays the flash video out of sync. However, now since I have to start pulseaudio from the terminal, it does not do that anymore. When I first start up the computer, flash videos are in sync, but that is because pulseaudio is not yet started and flash is probably outputting straight to ALSA I guess. Bottom line is flash video is out of sync, software sound mixing is enabled, and system sounds don't play. I have to start pulseaudio each startup from the terminal. Any ideas? I read the revolutionlinux page on the libflashsupport module and the files that it says it checks for are not on my computer. I never noticed that before. but /usr/lib/libpulse-simple.so.0.0 does exist. You mentioned a permissions problem, but where? I am in all the necessary groups and so is the user "pulse". IN addition, If I replace libesd with libesd-alsa flash sound stops working. Just as a side note. PJ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20070531/de2faee4/attachment.htm>
