Can't get CNN video sound ??

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 17:18 -0400, Jeffrey Ross wrote:
> 
> Antti J. Huhtala wrote:
> > to, 2008-07-03 kello 13:04 -0700, Craig White kirjoitti:
> >   
> >> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 22:39 +0300, Antti J. Huhtala wrote:
> >>     
> >>> to, 2008-07-03 kello 20:19 +0100, Anne Wilson kirjoitti:
> >>>       
> >>>> On Thursday 03 July 2008 20:08:25 William Case wrote:
> >>>>         
> >>>>> I am somewhat of a media newbie.  In F8 I was able to setup/get sound
> >>>>> with videos.  YouTube and CNN for example, remain silent for me in F9.
> >>>>>           
> >>>> Silly question, Bill.  Have you looked at mixer settings?  It seems that there 
> >>>> are many hidden channels on a lot of sound card, hidden, that is, on the 
> >>>> mixer applet, so it's possible that PCM or some such is muted or set very 
> >>>> low.
> >>>>
> >>>> Anne
> >>>>
> >>>>         
> >>> It's not quite that simple, I'm afraid. CNN and Youtube are silent here,
> >>> too. A week or so ago I was listening to some favourites of mine on
> >>> Youtube but today it is silent even if video still works all right. I'd
> >>> suspect one of the recent updates. This may have something to do with
> >>> another thread, "Re: problems with rhythmbox after updating to
> >>> udev-124-1.fc9.1"-
> >>>       
> >> ----
> >> possible but doubtful.
> >>
> >> The issue of flash, pulseaudio and sound is typically solved by
> >> installing libflashsupport
> >>
> >>     
> > [andie at Uusi-kone ~]$ locate libflashsupport
> > /usr/lib/libflashsupport.so
> > /usr/lib64/libflashsupport.so
> >
> > Maybe I should add that I've used F9 since May and I've been listening
> > to Youtube videos with it for longer than a month.
> >
> > Antti
> >
> >
> >
> >   
> In my case youtube and cnn were working fine until the upgrade to 
> Firefox 3 then anything that is flash shows up with the flash "F" in the 
> middle and requires me to click it to start it.  This includes flash ads 
> that might be on the screen.  CNN video doesn't work at all any longer 
> while youtube may play one or two videos and then quits.
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that sure sounds like 'flashblock' extension.

not that this is of any use to anyone using x86_64 but I find that
youtube and cnn video/audio are working fine for me (i386)

Craig