Flash on linux browser

[Mark Haney]

Clark, Patti wrote:
> The graphics folks here are moving away from QuickTime streaming to
> Flash.  They have created their first application and requested testing
> on various platforms and  browsers.  I can tell you that it's at times
> like these that I actually have warm feelings for Windows.  Of course
> firefox on XP works just fine presenting the flash app.  I go to a linux
> box with RHEL4 Update 4 and the current versions of firefox and
> flash-plugin and video is fine, there is no audio.  Google suggests this
> is an issue across distros.  I've not found anything in the RH lists to
> confirm...are folks here having the same issues?
> 
> Also, just to add another layer into the fray, I have VMWare Workstation
> v5.5.3 which is documented to support RHEL4 Update 4.  The test on my
> instance simply aborts the browser alltogether. <grimace>
> 
> Patti Clark
> Unix System Administrator - RHCT
> Office of Scientific and Technical Information
> 

In some cases I"ve had to add this line to my firefoxrc file:

FIREFOX_DSP=”aoss”

To get sounds out of my flash player.  YMMV.  I don't know that this 
works in every case.


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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
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