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pulseaudio package

  1. Bug #192888 (lambie)
  2. Comment #174

Comment 174 for bug 192888

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Conn O Griofa (psyke83) wrote :

ski,

We can forget about nspluginwrapper (and libflashsupport) to reduce complexity, that's all. With versions of Flash prior to v10 beta, the basic equation was:

a) Flash = audio is not directed to PulseAudio, therefore sounds cannot mix. However, Flash does not crash.
b) Flash + configuration proposal in bug #198453 = Flash does not successfully pass audio to PulseAudio
c) Flash + libflashsupport = audio is directed to PulseAudio, Flash crashes sporadically causing Firefox to crash.
d) Flash + libflashsupport + nspluginwrapper = audio directed to PulseAudio, Flash crashes sporadically but Firefox does *not* crash.

You can see that our options were limited, but (d) was clearly the best option.

As for performance benefits, you're misquoting me. Somebody else mentioned that nspluginwrapper helps on multi-core systems; I only have single-core systems so I cannot comment.

Flash v10 now seems to cooperate with the "pcm_pulse" ALSA plugin natively (as I mentioned in my last post), so we have a new & better option (i.e. just to fix bug #198453).

For i386 users, I posted an updated flashplugin-nonfree package here if you want to do some testing: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4928900
See Part B, but Part A is a prerequisite (i.e. to apply the fixes of bug #198453).