No audio while playing flash files, visuals are ok

Same problem here. Just installed Flock 2.02 via www.getdeb.net on Ubuntu 8.10. Have installed it on 2 machines (PC and laptop) but in both cases there is no sound. Videos play, such as YouTube, but no sound. No sound for streaming audio podcasts either. Use Firefox also on both machines with sound aplenty. Answers anyone?

Just noticed this problem today. Tried to watch a video on Facebook and was able to see the video but got no sound. Went to YouTube and got video but no sound. I have sound in all my other browsers when watching video.

OS: WinXP SP2
Flock: Version 2.0
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008100719 Firefox/3.0.3 Flock/2.0

Hi All,

Sorry that you are having issues not hearing the audio. I can appreciate your frustration. Let's try to narrow this down shall we? First, I would try reinstalling flash and see if this fixes the issue. You can download it here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashpl.... I’m curious, do you have Googles voice and video chat installed? http://mail.google.com/videochat. We have had users who have this installed app and have reported issues.

Let me know if you are still experiencing this issue.

Cheers,

Bry

I will try the Flash reinstall tomorrow. And no, I do not have Google Voice and Video Chat installed.

Will keep you posted.

Hi Robert,

I would like to rule out the basics here. Check the Youtube Audio controller settings. You may have inadvertently turned on mute or set the volume level to 0 while playing.

Cheers,

Bry

I get sound on Win Xp, Flock 2.02. But no sound on Ubuntu 8.10, Flock 2.02. All other browsers produce sound. Reinstalled Flash 10 on Ubuntu but to no effect.

I sense (ahem) it is a Mozilla thing on Ubuntu. Maybe to do with Firefox 3.03.

I will test this from my work PC. I know the volume is cranked up because that was the first thing I checked. Also, the video that was not working was not a youtube video but a video from somewhere else. To test, I went to youtube later. Neither video produced sound.

Hi Paul and Robert,

Could you please post a link to the video that you are having issues with. I would like to try and reproduce your issue.

Cheers,

Bry

Hi Bryan -

I get no sound on any video and no sound on any streaming flash audio. But I get video. Just no sound. This is using Flock on Ubuntu 8.10. On Widows Flock works fine.

I just updated Flock to 2.0.2 today and I can now hear sound on Videos. Not sure what changed between 2.0 and 2.0.2 but it seems that have fixed it.

I just noticed an odd bit of behavior. I leave my browsers, all of them, open for days on end. I only close them when their memory consumption maxes out or my machine starts to lag.

Today I noticed that Flock stopped playing audio on video files again. My browser has been open for about five days. I should have checked the memory use stats and what not, but I didn't, but I noticed that a restart of Flock brought sound back again.

I wonder what could cause sound to crap out after an extended period of time being open?

Hi Everyone,

1. I was looking through some issues surrounding YouTube and users not being able to hear audio during playback. Have a look here: http://www.google.com/support/youtube...
Search for: " Video Player Issues: Can't hear audio". I would check out the section where it tells you how to completely remove Flash and Install the latest version.

2. Here's some interesting news that I was unaware of. YouTube is now "disabling" audio on all unauthorized copyrighted music associated to video content. In the past, they would remove the video all together. Check it out here: http://mashable.com/2009/01/14/youtub...

Cheers,

Bry

I have the same problem. I can see video but can't hear it when using flock 2.0.3. I have no problem hearing sound for videos on firefox though. I'm using windows xp.

I'm having problems hearing audio on all sites but here is one that I tried this morning and got video but no audio.

http://break.com/index/dude-gets-knoc...

Hmmmmmmm, ok. I disabled my flashblock addon and restarted flock then enabled my flashblock addon and restarted flock and now I have sound. Very very strange. I have flashblock enabled in firefox and have no problem with sound. I don't know. But sound is back for now.

Not to be too much of a killjoy, but I am not going to go through all that crap just to get sound in Flock. I'd rather use a browser that works. So far Flock is the only browser that loses sound after a time. I have had Opera open, Firefox open and IE open for the same amount of time as Flock and only flock stops playing sounds. I know it sounds stubborn, but seriously, I'd rather just Alt-Tab over to a browser that I know will remember to play sounds instead of uninstalling and reinstalling the Flash plugin.

I have re-installed flash recently, so I also agree it's probably not the issue also considering flash applications are not the only ones being affected nor is a majority of it music. Mostly, I just want to watch my live CNN! :P

I do have the newest version of Flock.

I really don't know what's going on but once again I have no audio in flock and this is after restarting my computer and disabling/enabling my flashblock addon. Help!!

Hi jumble,

What version of flock are you using? Type "about:flockbuild" in the URL and it will display the build ID you are using.

Bry

Hi Bry. My build ID is: 1229460509.21435

Hi -

At last I have this resolved. I use Ubuntu 8.10 and by following these instructions I got sound:

http://helpforlinux.blogspot.com/2008...

Maybe this provides a route to a solution for windows.

Well, it fixed it for me.

I had to uninstall flock and then reinstall it. When I reinstalled instead of getting the flashblock addon i got the adblock addon and that seems to have done the trick. I can hear videos now. Hope this isn't a fluke.

Well once again I have no audio. It seems to appear and disappear without reason. I don't know. I wonder if this thread is dead.... seems I've been the only one posting for 5 days & haven't heard back from a tech. I love flock but I can't use a browser that has audio sometimes and sometimes not.

Well, I wonder what happened to Bryan. I have this issue also, running Ubuntu 8.10 with Flcok 2.0.

I've really enjoyed using Flock, but don't understand for a second why the audio is so hard for it. Or why the developers don't seem to be too concerned about it.

I've tried all of the things above, and some of them worked, for a time. Right now, I'm back to no audio for my video files. It's ridiculous. I'd switch to Chrome, like Robert Gonzalez above, but it's not ready for Linus yet either.

Any chance someone's got a solution???

Hi Thomas -

I am in agreement with you on all points. A few posts back in this thread I managed to get audio on Ubuntu 8.10 and Flock 2.03. But last time of use, the audio vanished . . . again. So it's back to firefox for now.

As and when chrome (chromium?) arrives for Ubuntu then no doubt I will switch.

Hi Paul(free),

I actually had Chromium installed for a while, but it was a little unstable. It was pretty slick though. I do use Chrome on Windows machines and like it. I can't use Firefox at the moment because of some update related glitch that makes it consume my entire desktop and hide my toolbars. I'm having the worst browser luck lately.

Good luck to you.

You know, the real irony of this is that Flock touts itself as a "social browser." How social can one be if one cannot hear their friends' videos? Really.

Okay, I really don't understand why Bryan, the Flock rep, has abandoned us on this issue. It's now been 14 days since we last heard from Bryan. Is there some fix that actually works for this? If not, let us all know and we'll go back to browsers that may have less functionality, but at least they work...

Hi Thomas,

My apologies for not getting back to you sooner. I appreciate your frustration regarding this issue. I have brought this up with our developers and we are stumped (we cannot reproduce the issue). Do you have any extensions installed? Have you tried reinstalling flash? Have you reinstalled Flock?

Here is a useful link that may help. "Get Flash Working in Flock Browser in Ubuntu"

http://helpforlinux.blogspot.com/2008...

Cheers,

Bry

I have abandoned flock altogether. It was nice, but I have began leaning heavily on Chrome as of late. When I need to develop I use FF. Neither has crapped out on me so they are safe bets.

Sorry Flock, you're pretty and all that, but I need a browser that gives me what I need.

GOOD NEWS guys,

I just got the sound in flash working.
First of all, we have two plugin folders on Ubuntu (8.04 in my case),
1. /usr/share/flock/plugins
2. ~/.flock/plugins
Some tips from the web suggest that files should go to folder #1, but I found it otherwise. Now make sure under folder #2, there are three files:
1. flashplayer.xpt
2. flashplugin-alternative.so (from firefox)
3. libflashplayer.so (flock's)

Second of all, default permission to these files are not read-writeable for your user account, if you copied from the /usr/share/flock... So you need to enable the permissions for your user, e.g., sudo chown -R username:usergroup ~/.flock/plugins/*

Restart flock (everybody knows...)

Now you should have the sound back!

Flock is a logical progress from Firefox; it has every reason to stay in the cross-platform browser battlefield, while Chrome is still a Windows fanboy.

Cheers!

Robert, that I don't know yet. Let me leave it on for a while and see what happens. Till now, it's been a few hours, and I still have sound.

Dear all,

My flock has been on for a whole day after my fix above
and it still has sound in Flash.

Kakyo,

Thank you for posting your fix! This is great news! We have never had reports of users losing their audio until this post. It certainly adds complexity when trying to track down the loss of flash audio and more importantly how to reproduce the issue. Your assistance with this matter is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Bry

I still have probs with audio in Flock - not in Chrome or FF3 - have tried all the above except reboot - here goes

I still have probs with audio in Flock - not in Chrome or FF3 - have tried all the above except reboot - here goes - now I have rebooted - still no Audio - I have upgraded Flash already too - What is next please?

I still have probs with audio in Flock - not in Chrome or FF3 - have tried all the above except reboot - here goes - now I have rebooted - still no Audio - I have upgraded Flash already too - What is next please?

Fixed - I was using Flash Meetings with headphones and simply pulled them out - no Audio was the result - after a couple of reboots now have Audio restored to my Flock WooHoo - must be more careful pulling out headphones and webcam :-)

I am having the same problem. It just started after a power outage, I think. My audio also works on other browsers. I have this problem in the past and reboot of flock seemed to fox the problem, Not so this time. I have restarted it about 6 times now hoping it would take care of it.

Other than stony river, has any one been able to resolve this issue?

I don't believe there's any known permanent solution to the sound problem for flash videos under Ubuntu. Moving files around or making simlinks to the FireFox plugins folder doesn't work for me. Sometimes a solution works for a time, only to reappear later.

Ok I think I can add even more complexity to this issue:

Problem: Not getting any audio through web based programs (not just flash/youtube, but pandora, etc)

I have checked just about everything. Audio works through WMP on local music files, so I know its not hardware, or codecs. I checked sound drivers, tried other browsers, re-installed flash, rolled back WMP to previous versions, etc. However, I can get audio from streaming radio that uses an external program like VLC player or WMP. (this is baffling because it makes me think that it is a browser issue, but this doesn't explain the same problems in firefox and chrome)

The only other symptom I have noticed is that the volume icon in the system tray is missing, even though it is set to be there in control panel>audio>

Someone PLEASE help. This is driving me nuts!

FOUND FIX!!

Hi everyone,
I found this fix on another forum. It worked for me. WOW so easy!!
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I know a lot of people have had this problem where when they install Adobe Flash Player version 9, that they get no sound when viewing flash content on the web such as google video or cnet videos. Well, someone has shown me how to fix it so I thought I would post the solution on here for everyone else who has the same problem.

Simply copy the following text to a text file

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32]
"midimapper"="midimap.dll"
"msacm.imaadpcm"="imaadp32.acm"
"msacm.msadpcm"="msadp32.acm"
"msacm.msg711"="msg711.acm"
"msacm.msgsm610"="msgsm32.acm"
"msacm.trspch"="tssoft32.acm"
"vidc.cvid"="iccvid.dll"
"VIDC.I420"="i420vfw.dll"
"vidc.iv31"="ir32_32.dll"
"vidc.iv32"="ir32_32.dll"
"vidc.iv41"="ir41_32.ax"
"VIDC.IYUV"="iyuv_32.dll"
"vidc.mrle"="msrle32.dll"
"vidc.msvc"="msvidc32.dll"
"VIDC.YVYU"="msyuv.dll"
"wavemapper"="msacm32.drv"
"msacm.msg723"="msg723.acm"
"vidc.M263"="msh263.drv"
"vidc.M261"="msh261.drv"
"msacm.msaudio1"="msaud32.acm"
"msacm.sl_anet"="sl_anet.acm"
"msacm.iac2"="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\iac25_32.ax"
"vidc.iv50"="ir50_32.dll"
"wave"="wdmaud.drv"
"midi"="wdmaud.drv"
"mixer"="wdmaud.drv"
"VIDC.WMV3"="wmv9vcm.dll"
"VIDC.VP40"="vp4vfw.dll"
"msacm.voxacm160"="vct3216.acm"
"MSVideo"="vfwwdm32.dll"
"MSVideo8"="VfWWDM32.dll"
"wave1"="wdmaud.drv"
"midi1"="wdmaud.drv"
"mixer1"="wdmaud.drv"
"aux"="wdmaud.drv"
"vidc.VP70"="vp7vfw.dll"
"vidc.X264"="x264vfw.dll"
"VIDC.FPS1"="frapsvid.dll"
"vidc.VP60"="vp6vfw.dll"
"vidc.VP61"="vp6vfw.dll"
"vidc.VP62"="vp6vfw.dll"
"vidc.DIVX"="DivX.dll"
"VIDC.UYVY"="msyuv.dll"
"VIDC.YUY2"="msyuv.dll"
"VIDC.YVU9"="tsbyuv.dll"
"VIDC.DRAW"="DVIDEO.DLL"
"VIDC.YV12"="yv12vfw.dll"
"wave2"="wdmaud.drv"
"midi2"="wdmaud.drv"
"mixer2"="wdmaud.drv"
"aux1"="wdmaud.drv"
"wave3"="wdmaud.drv"
"midi3"="wdmaud.drv"
"mixer3"="wdmaud.drv"
"aux2"="wdmaud.drv"
"VIDC.MSUD"="msulvc05.dll"
"wave4"="wdmaud.drv"
"midi4"="wdmaud.drv"
"mixer4"="wdmaud.drv"
"aux3"="wdmaud.drv"

Save it as missing.reg (Make sure you include the Windows Regestry Editor Version 5.00 line) and then double click on the saved file to import it into your regestry and hey presto, you now get sound of flash content. You may have to reedit your sound scheme when you have finnished but at least flash content now works properly

None of the above solutions worked for me. I'm running Flock on Vista. No sound from any websites whether Flash or not. Can Bryan or another Flock employee suggest anything other than reinstalling Flash? or a Google support page?

Same thing happens to me. Sound works fine at first, no problem. Shortly after listening to a video on youtube, sounds shuts off not only on youtube, but for everything else. Checked all sound options, speakers on and volume all the way up - no sound. Complete uninstall and re-install of flash does nothing, Uninstall and re-install of sound card drivers fixes the problem until I attempt to listen to another video on youtube. Sound shuts off again. Solution: Uninstall sound card driver through device manager, restart system, allow system to re-install sound driver on it's own and STAY AWAY FROM YOUTUBE FROM THAT POINT ON! Their site obviously caused the problem and they are too inept to find a fix, so stay away and avoid future problems...

fixed my problem.

Here was my simple fix. go to regedit.exe on start>run
go to hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32 folder. If you only see default then thats where the same problem was with my comp. To fix this right click on the drivers 32 folder, click permission. go to advanced, click on admin (or whatever account your using) and make sure you have "full control" and "this key and subkeys". If you do not, edit to make sure your user account does. Then you should be able to see everything in the drivers32 folder. Voila!