Comment 145 for bug 192888

Conn, what do you mean by "ESD output"? The default GSt audiosink as shipped in hardy is pulsesink. Pulseaudio is invoked via ESD compatibility (cf. pulseaudio-esound-compat package). We do not need to make any changes in GSt or its configuration, because alsasink is attempted if pulsesink fails.

I think many people are missing the point of this protracted discussion, which is to avoid Firefox 3.0 beta 5 crashing repeatedly (whether deterministically or otherwise). Hardy shipped with this goal met for both i386 and amd64.

The issue that I am attempting to address is the nondeterministic inaudibility of Flash with random PulseAudio clients.