[gentoo-amd64] No audio from web broadcasts

[gentoo-amd64] No audio from web broadcasts

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   One my AMD64 machine I've started having trouble with audio from
different investment sites. Here is one where the presentation runs
but I get no audio.

http://www.redoption.com/shadow_video.php

   Anyone else manage to get the audio? If so maybe we could compare
differences in setups.

   This does, of course, work on my Windows box so I can watch there
for now. I'm suspecting that they updating something on the
transmission end and now Linux is behind again.

Thanks,
Mark
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[gentoo-amd64] Re: No audio from web broadcasts

[Mark Knecht]

On 10/23/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    One my AMD64 machine I've started having trouble with audio from
> different investment sites. Here is one where the presentation runs
> but I get no audio.
>
> http://www.redoption.com/shadow_video.php
>
>    Anyone else manage to get the audio? If so maybe we could compare
> differences in setups.
>
>    This does, of course, work on my Windows box so I can watch there
> for now. I'm suspecting that they updating something on the
> transmission end and now Linux is behind again.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>

Probably should have mentioned that I'm using firefox-bin:

lightning ~ # emerge -pv mozilla-firefox-bin

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.5.0.7  LINGUAS="-ar
-ca -cs -da -de -el -en_GB -es -es_AR -es_ES -fi -fr -ga -ga_IE -he
-hu -it -ja -ko -mk -nb -nb_NO -nl -pl -pt_BR -ro -ru -sk -sl -sv
-sv_SE -tr -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB
lightning ~ #


When the video is running I do not see any additional processes
getting started. Not sure what technology is delivering this stuff.
Flash? Something else?

Thanks,
Mark
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: No audio from web broadcasts

[Conway S. Smith]

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On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:59:12 -0700
"Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/23/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    One my AMD64 machine I've started having trouble with audio from
> > different investment sites. Here is one where the presentation runs
> > but I get no audio.
> >
> > http://www.redoption.com/shadow_video.php
> >
> >    Anyone else manage to get the audio? If so maybe we could compare
> > differences in setups.
> >
> >    This does, of course, work on my Windows box so I can watch there
> > for now. I'm suspecting that they updating something on the
> > transmission end and now Linux is behind again.
> >
> 
> Probably should have mentioned that I'm using firefox-bin:
> 
> lightning ~ # emerge -pv mozilla-firefox-bin
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.5.0.7  LINGUAS="-ar
> -ca -cs -da -de -el -en_GB -es -es_AR -es_ES -fi -fr -ga -ga_IE -he
> -hu -it -ja -ko -mk -nb -nb_NO -nl -pl -pt_BR -ro -ru -sk -sl -sv
> -sv_SE -tr -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB
> 
> Total size of downloads: 0 kB
> lightning ~ #
> 
> 
> When the video is running I do not see any additional processes
> getting started. Not sure what technology is delivering this stuff.
> Flash? Something else?
> 

Yeah, it's using Flash.  It played for me, both video &
audio, just fine, using mozilla-firefox-bin-1.5.0.7,
mozilla-launcher-1.52-r1 w/ USE flag aoss, and netscape-flash-7.0.68.
The things I'd check would be mixer settings, for both ALSA (alsamixer)
and OSS (rexima, aumix, etc.).  Also, make sure mozilla-launcher has
the aoss USE flag, which will make it use the aoss wrapper script for
ALSA's OSS compatibility.  Are you using the Flash9 beta, by any chance?
I doubt it would affect your audio, but if nothing else helps it would
be something else to check.


Good luck,
Conway S. Smith

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: No audio from web broadcasts

[Greg Bur]

On 10/23/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/23/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> When the video is running I do not see any additional processes
> getting started. Not sure what technology is delivering this stuff.
> Flash? Something else?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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> gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>

I'm not using firefox-bin but when I visit the site I get a message
stating that I need the latest version of flash installed to view the
video.  My best guess would be that you need at least Flash 8 to view
the site properly.  I suppose you could try the new Flash 9 beta for
32-bit Linux and see where that gets you.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: No audio from web broadcasts

[Mark Knecht]

On 10/23/06, Conway S. Smith <beolach@comcast.net> wrote:
<SNIP>
> Yeah, it's using Flash.  It played for me, both video &
> audio, just fine, using mozilla-firefox-bin-1.5.0.7,
> mozilla-launcher-1.52-r1 w/ USE flag aoss, and netscape-flash-7.0.68.
> The things I'd check would be mixer settings, for both ALSA (alsamixer)
> and OSS (rexima, aumix, etc.).  Also, make sure mozilla-launcher has
> the aoss USE flag, which will make it use the aoss wrapper script for
> ALSA's OSS compatibility.  Are you using the Flash9 beta, by any chance?
> I doubt it would affect your audio, but if nothing else helps it would
> be something else to check.
>
>
> Good luck,
> Conway S. Smith
>

Conway,
   Thanks. I unmasked and emerged mozilla-launcher to get the same
version you had. The one I was using didn't have the aoss flag. That
by itself didn't fix it. After playing with alsamixer and still not
getting any audio I emerged aumix. Once I started aumix I immediately
got audio, so I'm up and working with your help.

   I'll have to see if running aumix is required after logins/reboots,
etc., but at least it's working.

Thanks!

- Mark
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