[K12OSN] quick flash player9 sound hack

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Fri Jan 19 19:58:50 UTC 2007


Eric Harrison wrote:
> Warren Togami wrote:
>> Eric Harrison wrote:
>>> "esddsp firefox" lets sound work with the new flash.
>>>
>>> So, here is a quick hack to get sound working with flash player 9....
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     su -l   #  you need to do this as root
>>>     cd /usr/bin/
>>>     mv firefox firefox.hack
>>>     echo -e '#!/bin/bash\nesddsp /usr/bin/firefox.hack $*' > firefox
>>>     chmod a+x firefox
>>>     exit
>> http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flash_Player:Additional_Interface_Support_for_Linux
>>
>> An ideal solution would be to modify libflashsupport to directly output
>> sound to esd.  Then you could package /usr/lib/libflashsupport.so in an
>> RPM called something like esd-libflashsupport.  LTSP users could install
>> that, and it would then work out of the box without temporary hacks like
>> this.
>>
>> http://pulseaudio.revolutionlinux.com/PulseAudio#PulseAudio_and_Flash
>> Looks like this guy implemented esd and pulseaudio support for
>> libflashsupport.
>>
>> Get this packaged and into Fedora?
>>
>> Warren Togami
>> wtogami at redhat.com
> 
> Yes, that appears to do the trick.  I'll have a test package up shortly.
> 
> 
> Without hacking this, it requires the pulseaudio packages. That does not
> appear to cause a conflict, but I thought I'd mention it in case it
> raises any red flags.
> 
> -Eric

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Warren Togami
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