Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 52112
flash plugin and xmms fight for resources
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:22:51 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010608 Description of problem: This problem stands for both Netscape4 and Mozilla. If i have XMMS playing a song, and Netscape/Mozilla has the Flash plugin installed, if i try to start my browser, it doesn't start, it just hangs (i have to kill the process). If XMMS is running but not playing anything, there's no problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install Flash plugin 2.Start XMMS and make it play a song 3.Start Netscape/Mozilla Actual Results: The browser process is started, but no window appeared on my desktop. 'ps ax' reveals the browser running. Expected Results: The browser should start normally Additional info: Looks like this problem happens no matter what sound architecture you're using. I use ALSA (and an i815 embedded soundcard), but i've heard other people having this problem too. I also use Ximian Gnome 1.4 (maybe this info is useful). Someone told me this workaround: start Netscape with "esddsp --server=localhost netscape" but i didn't try it.
Which output plugin are you using?
Heh, looks like you knew something... :-) I was using the OSS plugin, which comes by default with my XMMS (i'm using Ximian Gnome, if that makes a difference). If i switch to esound plugin, the problem goes away.
This is not something we can really solve, in that we can't fix how the flash plugin plays sounds.