Firefox locks sound

[Kahn Seidl]

Come to think of it...

My mplayer screws up based on sound now.  This is after I've upgraded to 
flash 9.

watching 3-4 dvds yesterday, it would freeze, throw a bunch of errors and 
then error out due to a sound error.  I dont have specifics, but I'll post 
more later.

--martin


>From: Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: Firefox locks sound
>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:58:28 +1030
>
>Tim:
> >> Just a note to say that you're not alone.  I have also had sites that
> >> use sound (whether it be part of Flash, or some background racket), 
>make
> >> it impossible to play sounds with other applications until you quit
> >> Firefox.
>
>Mark Knoop:
> > It is unlikely that Firefox is the culprit, more likely that a plugin
> > is to blame.
>
>Good point, unless it's Firefox keeping a plug-in active when it
>shouldn't.  But I think you're right, it's probably more likely that the
>plug-in is hogging the sound system to itself.
>
> > The old version of Flash did not use alsa and did tend to hang on to
> > the sound device. Have you installed the new version 9.0.31? What
> > other plugins are you using?
>
>I'll have to try that later.  I'm on the wrong PC, and I don't often go
>to Flash sites, so I don't know of one to test it with, off hand.
>
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