[SOLVED]firefox+flash stole the sound to banshee

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magowiz · Post by **magowiz** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:04 pm

Hi,
I have firefox and adobe-flash installed on a amd64 machine, I have also pulseaudio installed and I set it in gstreamer-properties as default sound input and output but if I start firefox and it starts also a web application in flash that uses sound and then I open banshee, banshee cannot play anything. Only closing firefox can allow to banshee to play something. What should I do?
I have the following software installed :

banshee 1.4.3-r1
firefox 3.0.10
adobe-flash 10.0.22.87
gst-plugins-pulse 0.10.14

banshee output :

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banshee-1 --debug
** Running Mono with --debug   **
[Info  17:03:45.076] Running Banshee 1.4.3: [Gentoo/banshee/1.4.3-r1 (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2009-06-07 11:36:40 CEST]
[Debug 17:03:46.119] Bus.Session.RequestName ('org.bansheeproject.Banshee') replied with PrimaryOwner
[Debug 17:03:46.125] Core service started (DBusServiceManager, 0,001559s)
[Debug 17:03:46.127] Registering remote object /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/DBusCommandService (Banshee.ServiceStack.DBusCommandService) on org.bansheeproject.Banshee
[Debug 17:03:46.137] Core service started (DBusCommandService, 0,011928s)
[Debug 17:03:46.183] Opened SQLite connection to /home/magowiz/.config/banshee-1/banshee.db
[Debug 17:03:46.183] Core service started (DbConnection, 0,045829s)
[Debug 17:03:46.191] Database version 22 is up to date
[Debug 17:03:46.206] Core service started (PreferenceService, 0,014374s)
[Debug 17:03:46.208] Registering remote object /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/SourceManager (Banshee.Sources.SourceManager) on org.bansheeproject.Banshee
[Debug 17:03:46.208] Core service started (SourceManager, 0,001629s)
[Debug 17:03:46.360] Core service started (MediaProfileManager, 0,151968s)
[Debug 17:03:46.361] Registering remote object /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/PlayerEngine (Banshee.MediaEngine.PlayerEngineService) on org.bansheeproject.Banshee
[Debug 17:03:46.363] Core service started (PlayerEngine, 0,002628s)
[Debug 17:03:46.370] Configuration client extension loaded (Banshee.GnomeBackend.GConfConfigurationClient)
[Debug 17:03:46.421] IO provider extension loaded (Banshee.IO.Unix.Provider)
[Debug 17:03:46.430] Core service started (TranscoderService, 0,012508s)
[Debug 17:03:46.432] Registering remote object /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/PlaybackController (Banshee.PlaybackController.PlaybackControllerService) on org.bansheeproject.Banshee
[Debug 17:03:46.433] Core service started (PlaybackController, 0,002739s)
[Debug 17:03:46.434] Core service started (ImportSourceManager, 0,000553s)
[Debug 17:03:46.439] Core service started (LibraryImportManager, 0,005379s)
[Debug 17:03:46.440] Core service started (UserJobManager, 0,000416s)
[Debug 17:03:46.450] Core service started (HardwareManager, 0,0104s)
[Debug 17:03:46.453] Bus.Session.RequestName ('org.bansheeproject.CollectionIndexer') replied with PrimaryOwner
[Debug 17:03:46.455] Registering remote object /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/CollectionIndexerService (Banshee.Collection.Indexer.CollectionIndexerService) on org.bansheeproject.CollectionIndexer
[Debug 17:03:46.456] Core service started (CollectionIndexerService, 0,005463s)
[Debug 17:03:46.474] Adding icon theme search path: /usr/share/banshee-1/icons
[Debug 17:03:46.476] Core service started (GtkElementsService, 0,019126s)
[Debug 17:03:46.548] Core service started (InterfaceActionService, 0,071486s)
[Debug 17:03:46.550] Album artwork path set to /home/magowiz/.cache/album-art
[Debug 17:03:46.550] Core service started (ArtworkManager, 0,001712s)
[Debug 17:03:46.998] Registering remote object /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/ClientWindow (Nereid.PlayerInterface) on org.bansheeproject.Banshee
[Debug 17:03:46.998] Core service started (NereidPlayerInterface, 0,447936s)
[Debug 17:03:47.000] Extension service started (DapService, 0,00142s)
[Debug 17:03:47.004] Using GNOME 2.22 API for Multimedia Keys
[Debug 17:03:47.004] Extension service started (MultimediaKeysService, 0,0044s)
[Debug 17:03:47.016] Extension service started (BookmarksService, 0,01125s)
[Debug 17:03:47.062] Extension service started (AudioCdService, 0,046111s)
[Debug 17:03:47.086] Extension service started (LastfmRecommendationService, 0,024134s)
[Warn  17:03:47.099] Impossibile connettersi a NetworkManager - Si presupporrà una connessione di rete disponibile e funzionante
[Debug 17:03:47.099] Core service started (Network, 0,004525s)
[Debug 17:03:47.099] Audioscrobbler state: connected
[Debug 17:03:47.102] Extension service started (AudioscrobblerService, 0,015275s)
[Debug 17:03:47.104] Extension service started (GnomeService, 0,002729s)
[Debug 17:03:47.256] Extension service started (NotificationAreaService, 0,151481s)
[Debug 17:03:47.472] Extension service started (PodcastService, 0,215288s)
[Debug 17:03:47.572] GStreamer pipeline does not run: audioconvert ! xingenc bitrate=128 ! id3v2mux
[Debug 17:03:47.626] GStreamer pipeline does not run: audioconvert ! wavpackenc mode=2 md5=false extra-processing=0 ! apev2mux
[Debug 17:03:47.628] GStreamer pipeline does not run: audioconvert ! fluwmaenc bitrate=64000 vbr=false ! fluasfmux
[Debug 17:03:47.628] Extension service started (GStreamerCoreService, 0,15558s)
[Debug 17:03:47.638] (libbanshee:player) Using built-in equalizer element
[Debug 17:03:47.658] Player state change: NotReady -> Ready
[Debug 17:03:47.669] Player state change: Ready -> Idle
[Debug 17:03:47.674] (libbanshee:player) Disabled ReplayGain
[Debug 17:03:47.677] Extension service started (CoverArtService, 0,00217s)
[Info  17:03:47.678] All services are started 1,557769s
[Debug 17:03:48.002] Registering remote object /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/SourceManager/PlayQueue (Banshee.PlayQueue.PlayQueueSource) on org.bansheeproject.Banshee
[Debug 17:03:48.037] Loaded IScreensaverManager: Banshee.GnomeBackend.GnomeScreensaverManager
[Debug 17:03:48.192] Creating Pango.Layout, configuring Cairo.Context
[Debug 17:03:48.240] Creating Pango.Layout, configuring Cairo.Context
[Debug 17:03:48.273] Creating new surface cache for 9216 KB (max) images, capped at 1 MB (113 items)
[Debug 17:03:48.294] Creating Pango.Layout, configuring Cairo.Context
[Info  17:03:48.524] nereid Client Started
[Debug 17:03:48.526] Delayed Initializating Banshee.Podcasting.PodcastService
[Debug 17:03:48.541] Refreshing any podcasts that haven't been updated in over an hour
[Debug 17:03:48.554] Delayed Initializating Banshee.Dap.DapService
[Debug 17:03:48.560] Dap support extension loaded: Banshee.Dap.MassStorage
[Warn  17:03:48.613] Caught an exception - org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchProperty: No property volume.is_mounted on device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0_storage_platform_floppy (in `NDesk.DBus.Proxies')
  at IDeviceProxy.GetPropertyBoolean (System.String ) [0x00000] 
  at Hal.Device.GetPropertyBoolean (System.String key) [0x00000] in /var/tmp/portage/media-sound/banshee-1.4.3-r1/work/banshee-1-1.4.3/src/Backends/Banshee.Hal/Hal/Device.cs:227 
  at Banshee.HalBackend.Volume.get_IsMounted () [0x00000] in /var/tmp/portage/media-sound/banshee-1.4.3-r1/work/banshee-1-1.4.3/src/Backends/Banshee.Hal/Banshee.HalBackend/Volume.cs:102 
  at Banshee.HalBackend.Volume.CheckVolumeMounted (Banshee.HalBackend.Volume volume) [0x0006c] in /var/tmp/portage/media-sound/banshee-1.4.3-r1/work/banshee-1-1.4.3/src/Backends/Banshee.Hal/Banshee.HalBackend/Volume.cs:185 
  at Banshee.HalBackend.Volume.Resolve (Banshee.HalBackend.BlockDevice parent, Hal.Manager manager, Hal.Device device) [0x00044] in /var/tmp/portage/media-sound/banshee-1.4.3-r1/work/banshee-1-1.4.3/src/Backends/Banshee.Hal/Banshee.HalBackend/Volume.cs:56 
[Debug 17:03:50.498] Querying model for track to play in Song:Next mode
[Debug 17:03:50.513] Player state change: Idle -> Loading
[Debug 17:03:50.652] Player state change: Loading -> Loaded
[Debug 17:03:50.705] Player state change: Loaded -> Playing
[Debug 17:03:50.712] Creating Pango.Layout, configuring Cairo.Context
[Debug 17:03:50.712] Creating Pango.Layout, configuring Cairo.Context
[Debug 17:03:51.714] TrackInfoDisplay RenderAnimation: 30,00 FPS
[Debug 17:03:51.715] TrackInfoDisplay RenderAnimation: 30,00 FPS

EDIT : it seems that setting in gstreamer-properties to use ALSA instead of PulseAudio solves this issue but I think it is a workaround and not a proper solution .

Abraxas · Post by **Abraxas** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 4:52 pm

You need to install libflashsupport. Flash doesn't natively support pulseaudio so it will try use ALSA directly which means that pulse cannot access the ALSA layer.

magowiz · Post by **magowiz** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 6:06 am

Abraxas wrote:You need to install libflashsupport. Flash doesn't natively support pulseaudio so it will try use ALSA directly which means that pulse cannot access the ALSA layer.

I read into libflashsupport description : "Adds pulseaudio/esd/oss audio output and HTTPS/RTMPS support to Adobe Flash 9" , does this mean that works only with adobe-flash 9 or it should work also with 10?

EDIT: It seems that installing libflashsupport did the trick , Thank you Abraxas