Bug 261008 – www-plugins/libflashsupport debug does nothing

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description John Klug 2009-03-03 02:51:14 UTC]

I am not getting any debug output or sound when using libflashsupport with Firefox 3

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run firefox with youtube video
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
$ env | grep FLASH
FLASH_PULSEDEBUG=1
FLASH_FORCE_PULSEAUDIO=1
FLASH_AUDIODEBUG=1


$ firefox  
which: no soundwrapper in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/games/bin:/var/qmail/bin)
which: no soundwrapper in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/games/bin:/var/qmail/bin)



Expected Results:  
I would expect to see some mention of pulseaudio in the output of Firefox.

Installed items:

[I--] [ ~] net-www/libflashsupport-1.2 (0)
[I--] [  ] net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.15.3 (0)
[I--] [  ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.6 (0)

I have also installed 32 bit modules from chroot for alsa-plugins.
[I--] [  ] media-plugins/alsa-plugins-1.0.17-r1 (0)

[Comment 1 David Abbott (RETIRED) 2009-03-04 00:38:02 UTC]

Can you play a file with paplay

[Comment 2 John Klug 2009-03-06 04:24:04 UTC]

paplay worked fine.

I am wondering if libflashsupport is needed anymore?

I downloaded 10.0.22.87 net-www/netscape-flash and uninstalled libflashsupport, and I get sound just fine.

I could never get 10.0.15.3 working with or without libflashsupport.

Thanks.

[Comment 3 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) 2009-03-06 14:53:43 UTC]

Well, flash itself just uses alsa for sound.  Libflashsupport lets you use other backends (pulseaudio, esd, oss) for sound instead.

Though if you're using pulseaudio and have flash working with sound, but without libflashsupport, that's great news!

[Comment 4 John Klug 2009-03-07 19:34:37 UTC]

I configured ALSA to use pulseaudio (output to S/PDIF hardware) a long time ago and had never used libflashsupport before.  The trouble started when I upgraded to Firefox 3, and then Flash no longer worked (neither did swfdec).  For whatever reason, the masked off netscape-flash package fixes the issue.  So maybe I really never needed libflashsupport in the first place.  Thanks.

[Comment 5 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) 2009-12-10 17:25:27 UTC]

The official word is now, with flash-10, all you need is the pulse plugin for alsa, no libflashsupport any more, so closing this as INVALID.