Can't get CNN video sound ??

[Antti J. Huhtala]

to, 2008-07-10 kello 18:27 +0100, Anne Wilson kirjoitti:
> On Wednesday 09 July 2008 17:47, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Thursday 03 July 2008 20:39:58 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"-
> > >
> > > Hmm - I can't check my Fedora box tonight, but I'll look at it tomorrow.
> >
> > Mine worked.
> >
> I forgot to do this, but I've done it now.  Sound works in both CNN videos and 
> youtube videos.  This is F9 + KDE4.0.5.
> 
> Anne
> 
Thank you, Anne. I got it working as well by briefly visiting KDE which
is also installed in this box. CNN and Youtube sound started working
there and when I returned to Gnome sound still worked. I reported about
this on 4th July under "Re: Can't get CNN video sound ?? -[SOLVED]"

Antti