[pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

[Daniel Chen]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Markus Rechberger
<mrechberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> The flash plugin is able to interfere and mute pulseaudio occasionally
> ... the applications (eg.
> mplayer) don't show up anything strange but audio is mute for it...

So a gotcha here is mplayer, since you mentioned it. Make sure that
you're running a patched version of mplayer[0]. Can't say much about
Flash, since I haven't experienced the symptom myself with it (and
source not being open, etc.).

-Dan


[0] at least patched in the latest stable Mandriva and development
Ubuntu versions, e.g., https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482408