On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Daniel Chen <seven.steps at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Markus Rechberger > <mrechberger at gmail.com> wrote: >> The flash plugin is able to interfere and mute pulseaudio occasionally >> ... the applications (eg. >> mplayer) don't show up anything strange but audio is mute for it... > > So a gotcha here is mplayer, since you mentioned it. Make sure that > you're running a patched version of mplayer[0]. Can't say much about > Flash, since I haven't experienced the symptom myself with it (and > source not being open, etc.). > I had the same issue with basically everything also cat /dev/urandom | aplay Markus