Sound Conflict Web Site

[Norman Nunn]

Greg Trounson wrote:

> Norman Nunn wrote:
>
>> I had been having random success in an effort to play mp3's and cd's 
>> with FC3.  I had searched the recent mail list with no luck.  Volume 
>> control settings that worked one day, did not the next.  This morning 
>> I noticed that when Firefox was not running, that mp3's played fine 
>> in xmms but when Firefox was loaded with web sites, mp3's did not 
>> play and the sound card warning window appeared.  This did not happen 
>> on just any web site but only for Yahoo sites I checked; the Gnome 
>> home page and Fedora home pages were not a problem.  I disabled all 
>> the plugins, but that did not solve the problem.  Any ideas on this 
>> setup issue?
>>
>
> I had a quick look and didn't see anything on the yahoo site that 
> would require sound.
>
> I've noticed similar problems in FC2, and assumed that libflashplayer 
> was keeping a lock on the sound device.
>
> Which is strange, since my sound card never had a problem playing 
> multiple simultaneous sounds under RedHat 9.
>
> Greg
>
Greg,

Thanks for the feedback.  It appeared that the list was getting more 
sound issues compared to FC2 and this appeared to be relevant.  Now that 
I know the link, I can work around the issue. 

Norm