Sound and flash

[Royal2000H]

In certain programs or internet sites when a sound tries playing it plays a second lags for a second then plays the rest, like it's paused or loading or something for less than a second. In flash it's even worse, all the sound is delayed, it like lightning you see the light, wait a second and then hear the thunder. So it keeps doing that where sound is behind. And many times the whole flash game lags or freezes, such as http://www.addictinggames.com/pingpong3d.html , the sound only plays when the ball is in the middle (on the way from ad to the pattle, but not right when it hits the paddle, and it freezes for a split second right when the sound plays. Now, even another game would do the same thing, so it's not just that single game.

Any reason why it's messed up.

BTW, I installed ubuntu and later added kubuntu, I heard they use different sound systems, could that be a problem?

[Royal2000H]

can anybody please help???

[nikkkko]

Did you ever get this fixed?

I have the same problem using flashplayer-mozilla 7.0.25-0, i.e, flash movie loads but sound is around about 1/2 a second slow. This is enough to make movies which require any kind of audio sync impossible to watch. I have also tried manually installing flash, (produced same sound lag), and tried the libflash-mozplugin, which crashed firefox whenever a page with flash loaded. (This problem noted elsewhere in this forum by others).

Anyway, anyone got a suggestion?

[askrieger]

You may find some help in the Ubuntu Wiki. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats

[Nirvana]

You may find some help in the Ubuntu Wiki. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats

Specific location: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats#head-c02d7ec888c401b9b82b98a7d7630cba5a21792b

[askrieger]

Don't you think he might want to learn what he was doing and why?

[nikkkko]

Thanks for that information.

As it happens, I'm running Dapper on a laptop and Breezy on my main box and it's the Breezy installation which has the problem. I had already tried fashplugin-nonfree under Dapper, (installed with Adept), but the plugin was not "activated" and I had to manually install to get flash working. I hadn't bothered with the plugin for Breezy because it didn't work for Dapper - poor logic on my part.

I will try flashplugin-nonfree under Breezy when I get home.

Thanks again.

[nikkkko]

Like the audio, I'm being slow. Of course flashplugin-nonfree simply puts the same libflashplayer.so file in the .mozilla/plugins folder that appears if I install manually, so I still ended up with the delay.

Creating the file:

~/.mozilla/firefox/rc

with the line

FIREFOX_DSP="none"

did, however, solve the problem.

Now I can watch video.google clips without going insane. Then again...