[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
wtogami at redhat.com
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