Hello

I am using Mandrake 9.2 linux , and it has 2.4.22-41mdk kernel.
The browser is Firefox, and everytime any flash file has audio in it
it either plays too fast and stutters or blocks the soundcard entirely and
crashes the browser.

I didn't have this problem when i was using the previous release Flash player
6.
It seems like there is a problem with how flash handles sampling rates and
audio
devices in linux. My soundcard provides only 48000 hz and any other
sampling rate causes the same problem as flash does. Most programs
can handle it and play audio without any problems.

I presume this problem is due to incompatible soundcard driver, but as i said
it works 100 % with other programs, but not with Flash then it really is a
mystery.

Macromedia should come up with a solution how to fix this. At least they should
provide the older release of the linux flash player 6.

I think this problem would be fixed if Flash used sound server daemon
to the audio. Sound servers such as "Arts" should be supported as they
fix most of the sound problems related to flash. The other sound problem is
that
Flash player blocks the sound device entirely, because it always takes direct
access to
the soundcard device and doesn't seem to use any sound server.

Hardware: Soundcard "VT8233 [AC97 Audio Controller]", uses kernel module
"via82cxxx_audio" (OSS),
or ALSA snd-via82xx.

(I have an other pc with a similar problem which has SIS- soundcard)

Does someone have similar problems with Flash? Has anyone found a solution to
this problem? :lips;

As i suggested, using Arts soundserver fixes the problem. The sound just needs
to pipe through Arts, and that isn't done automatically by Flash player... so
to get the sound working just run the browser from the console by using this
command

artsdsp /usr/local/firefox/firefox

(replace the path to match the path to your firefox-binary)

artsdsp is a soundwrapper program which pipes the sound through arts server,
which connects to the soundcard device. So if you're having sound problems
in linux when using flash, just using Arts can solve the problem.