Gnash plugin does not play sound on select Flash animations

Bug #215493 reported by Samuel Cantrell
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gnash (Ubuntu)
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Mozilla Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnash

After installing Gnash plugin in Mozilla Firefox 3 beta 5, tried playing Flash animation at http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html. While video plays, sound does not. The test animation at http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/ does have sound.

Using Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy development branch (installed beta, done software upgrades from that).

Firefox package version: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
Gnash package versions: 0.8.2-0ubuntu3

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 10 18:22:03 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-15-generic x86_64

Tags: apport-bug
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Samuel Cantrell (samcan) wrote :
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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

Can you please make sure you have no flashplugin-nonfree info in your profile libflashsupport.so would be the exact name im looking for?

Changed in gnash:
assignee: nobody → mozilla-bugs
status: New → Incomplete
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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

This bug shows no private data and was made public for that reason.

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Samuel Cantrell (samcan) wrote :

As to my profile, is that the .mozilla folder in my home folder? If it is, there are two folders within that, extensions, and firefox. If I go inside this first extensions folder, there is another folder labeled with gobbly-gook, that is empty.

In the firefox folder, there is the folder that contains my Firefox profile (I believe, a pluginreg.dat file, which I believe is attached above, and a profiles.ini file, which I also believe is attached above). Pluginreg.dat does not contain any reference to libflashsupport.so, nor flashplugin-nonfree.

In what I believe is my true profile folder, there is another pluginreg.dat file, which contains references to Gnash. In it, there is no reference to libflashplugin.so. I have attached the file.

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der_vegi (m-may) wrote :

I also have with some animations, example: http://www.utopia.de/utopia-aktion/oekostrom-jetzt . But I do hear some cracks in the speaker, not too loud, though.

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der_vegi (m-may) wrote :

Ops. I meant "I also have this problem with ...". Too tired.. ;)

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der_vegi (m-may) wrote :

I haven't found any reference to a flashplugin.so in my firefox directories, either. But reference to flashplugin-alternative.so. Which file/folder do you exactly mean by "profile"?

Maybe I should add, that I run Hardy with the latest updates installed, amd64. I had never installed Adobe's flashplugin.

Maybe it is some incompatibility with pulseaudio? As I can hear this crackling noise every time the animation should play a sound. Starting firefox from the command line does not give any gnash error.

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Samuel Cantrell (samcan) wrote :

I'll admit I'm not totally sure, but when I tried starting Firefox from the command-line, and tried playing the Flash animation I mentioned above, it worked. However, running Firefox from the icon on the panel does not allow the animation's sound to work.

Very peculiar that both you and I are running Hardy on amd64, and experiencing similar problems. Have you upgraded to the RC yet?

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der_vegi (m-may) wrote :

Well, I have not done a fresh install of the rc, but I followed all the upgrades since my installation of the beta.

Maybe this has to do something with bug 198453?

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

der_veg and samcan can you please try setting a different output method to see if another output helps in your case. gnash and flash use different ways to set up output.

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

samcan and der_vegi, please make sure that gstreamer-properties is using autodetect for output settings. worst case if it is using that please change it to pulseaudio to see if it makes a differnce please let me know if one of these settings fixes this for you.

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der_vegi (m-may) wrote :

Well, it was set to 'automatic', but also setting it to Pulse does not improve it...

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