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FS#20025 - [vlc] no sound when already playing audio with Firefox/Flash

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Daniele C. (legolas558) - Wednesday, 30 June 2010, 09:56 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Saturday, 03 July 2010, 13:45 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

This is basically the same bug as reported here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/188358

Play a flash video with sound in Firefox (youtube, dailymotion, last.fm etc.), then try to play a video using VLC, you will get no sound and the following error message:

--------
jack error: failed to connect to JACK server
oss error: cannot open audio device (/dev/dsp)
main error: couldn't find a filter for the conversion
main error: couldn't create audio output pipeline
--------

Tried with all available output module (alsa, jack, oss..)

Video plays fine with sound using mplayer. For it to work, I have to close Firefox (probably to "release" /dev/dsp) and then play my video (if I reopen Firefox first and don't play any video, it works too).

vlc (any 1.x version)
firefox (any 2.x or 3.x version)
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Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Saturday, 03 July 2010, 13:45 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Wednesday, 30 June 2010, 10:25 GMT
this is not a packaging bug. is mostly your problem and in the way you configured devices. if is working in mplayer it should work in vlc with the same configuration for audio. set all your apps on alsa

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