[K12OSN] quick flash player9 sound hack

[Eric Harrison]

Warren Togami wrote:
> Eric Harrison wrote:
>> "esddsp firefox" lets sound work with the new flash.
>>
>> So, here is a quick hack to get sound working with flash player 9....
>>
>>
>>
>>     su -l   #  you need to do this as root
>>     cd /usr/bin/
>>     mv firefox firefox.hack
>>     echo -e '#!/bin/bash\nesddsp /usr/bin/firefox.hack $*' > firefox
>>     chmod a+x firefox
>>     exit
> 
> http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flash_Player:Additional_Interface_Support_for_Linux
> 
> An ideal solution would be to modify libflashsupport to directly output
> sound to esd.  Then you could package /usr/lib/libflashsupport.so in an
> RPM called something like esd-libflashsupport.  LTSP users could install
> that, and it would then work out of the box without temporary hacks like
> this.
> 
> http://pulseaudio.revolutionlinux.com/PulseAudio#PulseAudio_and_Flash
> Looks like this guy implemented esd and pulseaudio support for
> libflashsupport.
> 
> Get this packaged and into Fedora?
> 
> Warren Togami
> wtogami at redhat.com

Yes, that appears to do the trick.  I'll have a test package up shortly.


Without hacking this, it requires the pulseaudio packages. That does not
appear to cause a conflict, but I thought I'd mention it in case it
raises any red flags.

-Eric