Re: [LAU] Wine + Firefox + Flash == No Audio with ALSA

From: Justin Smith <noisesmith@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Jul 10 2009 - 22:06:59 EEST

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Ken Restivo<ken@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> I've successfully gotten Firefox to run on Wine with Adobe Flash (presumably so that I can actually see people's websites, and listen to their music. Sheesh.). This is on a 32-bit system.
>
> But no sound. WineCfg seems to think that the only drivers available are dmix, but I don't have dmix configured, or running, and I do NOT want dmix at all!
>
> http://portaserver.restivo.org/kens/dmix0.png
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> I use this system for JACK audio, so I don't want crap mixing happening in ALSA adding latency. I'm fine with shutting down JACK in order to surf on Windoze, for those times when I actually need it. I do NOT want to have to run a soundserver like ESD, which is what a lot of the advice on Das Internets seems to say to do.
>
> So I want Wine/Firefox to just use the direct access to the ALSA card.
>
> My .asoundrc is empty, which is kind of how I like it.
>
> In Googling around, I found advice to add this to my .asoundrc:
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> pcm.dmix0 {      type plug      slave.pcm "hw:0,0" }
>
> Seems like it'd be a neat way to force Wine to do what I want, without having to do what it wants. I tried it, though, and nothing.
>
> -ken
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Have you tried wineasio? This has worked for me (with reaper and
audiomulch). I don't see why it wouldn't work with firefox/flash.
http://proaudio.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php?title=ASIO_with_Wineasio
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