Monday, January 7, 2008

Fedora Core 8 : No sounds with Firefox

I recently installed FC8 and came up with the problem while trying to play flash video ( youtube / metacafe / vidzone ) with Firefox . The problem was not playing the sound while playing the video and also no problem with sounds in mplayer, amarok or totem. the i tried to find a solution from forums and noticed that this was a common problem with many FC and Ubuntu users.

finally i came up with a solution that worked well.

1. Remove the previously installed libflashsupport
#yum remove libflashsupport

2. remove previously installed flash-plugin
#yum remove flash-plugin

3. download and install only flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386.rpm from Adobe.com
# rpm -Uhv flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386.rpm

thats all.

I suggest that anyone having this problem to go through this before going to solutions like alsa-oss solutions .

if this doesn't work try out this thread from fedoraforum

6 comments:

Unknown said...

flash-plugin was allready installed an had to be deinstalled first:

yum remove flash-plugin

Then libflashsupport had to be put in

yum install libflashsupport

and afterwards flash-plugin had to be reinstalled

yum install flash-plugin

Now sound in firefox from flash works on two clients

Anonymous said...

Yes gerrit has the key point. I found that libflashsupport was not installed on my fedora 8 system when I tried to remove it, even though flash-plugin was. Installing the version of flash-plugin referred to by thilina's original post is irrelevant and does not fix the problem. The problem is fixed simply by yum install libflashsupport; yum install flash-plugin.

Ian

Unknown said...

Great blog post, I just installed Fedora 9 and had the same problem, I just had to install libflashsupport;

yum install libflashsupport

and then restart firefox and I started getting sound.

Unknown said...

try to do
yum install libflashsupport*

or yum remove libflashsupport*

hit * after libflashsupport

Unknown said...

I installed Fedora 9 and had the same problem. Now it works, Thanks!!!

lembukuning said...

thank you so much :)
it works for me