[opensuse] Flash based sound is sloooooooow in some cases... trying to discover why
I've bumbled into an odd problem with Flash lately. It's not a critical thing, just nagging at me because it's rather odd, and I'd like to find out why it's happening. I've got the latest Flash build installed from the repositories. Flash is working on the big sites like say... YouTube. Works great there. My partner was toying with an online Flash based chat room thing yesterday (paid membership only so not practical to send people there, she was using a friend's paid account). It has video and audio options... you can tune in to other people's web cams, listen to their audio broadcast etc., and it's displayed/played in your browser using Flash. The video works perfectly, but the sound... it plays at half speed. This is consistent across at least Firefox and Opera. Tested in Windows using Firefox, and it works fine there. Any ideas why sound would be played at half speed? Has anyone encountered this or something similar? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
|-----Original Message----- |From: Clayton [mailto:smaug42@gmail.com] |Sent: 18. april 2007 07:00 |My partner was toying with an online Flash based chat room |thing yesterday (paid membership only so not practical to send |people there, she was using a friend's paid account). It has |video and audio options... you can tune in to other people's |web cams, listen to their audio broadcast etc., and it's |displayed/played in your browser using Flash. The video works |perfectly, but the sound... it plays at half speed. This is |consistent across at least Firefox and Opera. Tested in |Windows using Firefox, and it works fine there. | |Any ideas why sound would be played at half speed? Has anyone |encountered this or something similar? | If this audio is somekind of fla format I do not know, but if it is embedded MP3 Flash needs it samples to be factors of 44.1KHz if not you either get chipmunks or slowhands. http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/chipmunk.html So you should notify the site-admin and ensure they encode/recode their audio properly according to the url above. This can be easily done in realtime with lame if number of users aren't that big. Probably they use so low-quality to preserve bandwidth that the linux player comes into an area where it has not been well tested. The sad reality is linux flash version is substandard to windows especially in interfacing the hardware. -- MortenB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
If this audio is somekind of fla format I do not know, but if it is embedded MP3 Flash needs it samples to be factors of 44.1KHz if not you either get chipmunks or slowhands. http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/chipmunk.html
That sounds exactly like what is happening... the slowhands result. It only happens on this one website, so it's not exactly a critical problem. They are definitely using low quality to preserve bandwidth... the bandwidth consumption from the website is very minimal.
The sad reality is linux flash version is substandard to windows especially in interfacing the hardware.
Hmmmm I wonder if Adobe has any info on this? Like I said, not that important, but one of those things I like to hunt down on a slow Sunday afternoon. Thanks for the extra info. I'll keep hunting. If I get a fix or a solution out of Adobe (ha right) or niggle out a workaround, I'll post back here to the mailing list... if not... meh... it's one silly chat community site that doesn't work.. no loss :-) C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
|-----Original Message----- |From: Clayton [mailto:smaug42@gmail.com] |Sent: 19. april 2007 09:01 |> The sad reality is linux flash version is substandard to windows |> especially in interfacing the hardware. | |Hmmmm I wonder if Adobe has any info on this? Like I said, |not that important, but one of those things I like to hunt |down on a slow Sunday afternoon. Thanks for the extra info. |I'll keep hunting. If I get a fix or a solution out of Adobe |(ha right) or niggle out a workaround, I'll post back here to |the mailing list... if not... |meh... it's one silly chat community site that doesn't work.. no loss |:-) | I have a flash mp3 jukebox which is just some self-knotted javascript around http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_MP3_Player On linux this always hangs atleast one time a day, locks the sound device so I need to reload alsa, which means killing my citrix session. At home it is better (Audiology hw), there I only need to reload again if it hangs, but it hangs often when changing playlist/reload flash after long time of playing. On windows everything is always perfect :-( -- MortenB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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