<div>On 5/31/07, CJ van den Berg <<a href="mailto:cj@vdbonline.com">cj@vdbonline.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 08:47:59PM -0400, Paul Jones wrote: > Hi, I have my flash video working through Iceweasel and using Pulseaudio. > The problem is that the audio and video are not synchronized. I have been > able to achieve perfect synchronization in the past but not since I > reinstalled Debian. > > I used to have these same synchronization problems in the past when I would > kill the pulseaudio server and restart it from the terminal. Flash video on > Youtube and other sites would go out of sync but videos played on my own > system would stay in sync. The only way I would achieve synchronization is > by restarting the computer. > > Now pulseaudio does not start automatically anymore unless I edit the > variable in /etc/default/pulseaudio and when Pulseaudio starts it does not > show up in the system monitor like it used to. Pulseaudio starts > automatically but it is not listed in the system monitor and iceweasel > flash > videos are out of sync. If flash is going out of sync it probably means that it's communicating with pulseaudio via the esound protocol (assuming it's communicating with pulseaudio at all), which is know to suck at getting synchronization right. This maybe a permissions problem.  Try starting an audio application or two from the command line and check for permission denied errors from pulse. Totem would be a good candidate, or perhaps paplay or something. > /etc/default/pulseaudio mentions that is not the recommended way of > starting > pulseaudio, so what is the recommended way now. editing the conf files for > autospawn and daemonize doesn't work. > > Anyone have any recommendations. The recommended way of starting pulseaudio is via gnome-session. In other words, go to System->Preferences->Sounds->Sounds and check the "Enable software sound mixing (ESD)" option. Then Gnome will start pulseaudio automatically when you login.  This requires of course that you install pulseaudio-esound-compat. > On a less important note, my gnome system sounds are not working. I'd like > some suggestions for those too. In the same dialog where you turn on ESD you can also turn on Gnome system sounds. -- CJ van den Berg mailto:<a href="mailto:cj@vdbonline.com">cj@vdbonline.com </a>   <a href="mailto:xmpp:cj@vdbonline.com">xmpp:cj@vdbonline.com</a> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGXpm1l3pZXfh0CHIRAvl+AJoDTpCPA1UrJm6NVZoVFo17EddyLwCgzlNZ V06U5qUS5zQ2/vJYGo1fFK8= =5JKZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de">pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de </a> <a href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss">https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss</a></blockquote><div> HI again, I should have mentioned that I  already did all the settings in  the  gnome sound preferences but the system sounds still do not work.  I shut off  the pulseaudio init script and  pulseaudio does not start automatically, I have to start it from the terminal. Both Software Sound Mixing and System Sounds are enabled in the preferences but still nothing. I think you may be right about flash going to ESD. When I run iceweasel from the terminal it says  ~/.esd-auth file exists then plays the flash video out of sync. However, now since I have to start pulseaudio from the terminal, it does not do that anymore. When I first start up the computer, flash videos are in sync, but that is because pulseaudio is not yet started and flash is probably outputting straight to ALSA I guess. Bottom line is flash video is out of sync, software sound mixing is enabled, and system sounds don't play. I have to start pulseaudio each startup from the terminal. Any ideas? I read the revolutionlinux page on the libflashsupport module and the files that it says it checks for are not on my computer. I never noticed that before. but /usr/lib/libpulse-simple.so.0.0 does exist. You mentioned a permissions problem, but where? I am in all the necessary groups and so is the user "pulse". IN addition, If I replace libesd with libesd-alsa flash sound stops working. Just as a side note. PJ </div> </div>