Trick: How-to Flash Sound KDE 3.4 and Firefox-1.5

FastTurtle

This is a very easy fix for sound in flash with KDE 3.4 and firefox 1.5 and may also work for 1.0.8 .

Simple edit the icon and add -artsd to the command line. Start firefox and visit a flash site/game/what ever where you want sound. Should work immediately although you may also have to restart kde to get it fully operational.

Note that once sound works in flash once again, simply remove the extra command from the startup link and it will continue working correctly. :lol:

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seatec · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 50 Location: Munich.de

Err, what icon? My firefox is 1.0.8, Kde is 3.4.3. I don't see any sort of icon that links to flash, neither in Firefox nor Kde. The video part works fine for me, but sound obviously doesn't.
Maybe you can provide the command string associated with this icon so I can maybe manually run flash with that option? Thx in advance!

Phenax · l33t Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 972

firefox -artsd
^ In terminal.
Anyways, this is only for people who are using artsd (KDE) or whatnot and don't have hardware mixing in their sound card.

sasq · Apprentice Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 234 Location: Poland

And what if somenone hasn't Arts? I have only ALSA kernel driver and software audio mixing works for other apps. Only in several flash movies there isn't any sound :/
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FastTurtle · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 7:23 pm Post subject:

seatec: the icon I'm referring to is the firefox icon. rt clk and edit the properties by adding the -artsd to the tail of the command on the application tab.

sasq: As the thread title states: This is in regards to getting sound working for flash with Firefox 1.5 and kde 3.4. Don't know how to get it working for anyone else
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sasq · Apprentice Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 234 Location: Poland

I have some parts of KDE 3.4 but my main WM is Fluxbox. I have also Firefox, but I use also Opera. I wrote that I use plain ALSA, because I don't use Arts for my KDE apps. So why I couldn't to ask in that topic?
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01mf02 · Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 8:51 am Post subject:

seatec · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 50 Location: Munich.de

firefox -artsd doesn't change a thing for me. Having to boot windows to show ppl a flash movie cause my linux can't handle it is quite embarassing btw :>
I'm running arts, I do have sound all over in linux/kde, I don't have sound muted for flash, nor is the volume set to 0. Any ideas guys and girls?

bunder · Bodhisattva Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 5934

use `artsdsp firefox` instead... works for me. i'm not sure if mmap is needed (-m flag)
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seatec · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 50 Location: Munich.de

Woot! Works! Finally! Thank you very much. That was annoying me for months already.

bandreabis · Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 10:27 pm Post subject:

I was get used to use

Deathwing00 · Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 1:48 pm Post subject:

Moved from Multimedia to Documentation, Tips & Tricks.

irondog · Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 2:48 pm Post subject:

You can use Flash 9 now. This version has ALSA support built-in.
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anxt · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:12 am Post subject:

i am trying to get firefox or mozilla to use jack via artsd. i cannot use artsdsp as the firefox is just a launch wrapper and artsdsp only uses binary files.

that said firefox -artsd yeilds no sound

i continue on the quest. i freally want a jackified browser