Flash Player Sound in Ubuntu

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Chris

For ages sound emanating from flash player under Ubuntu has been difficult to achieve and a PITA regarding getting other sounds to player afterwards, I found a solution here.

# Flash also looks for /usr/lib/libesd.so.1
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 /usr/lib/libesd.so.1

# Flash expects /tmp/.esd/socket to exist.
sudo mkdir -p /tmp/.esd/
sudo touch /tmp/.esd/socket

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3 Responses to Flash Player Sound in Ubuntu

  1. Arthur says:
    February 16, 2007 at 12:31 pm

    This was / is for Flash 7, Flash 9 seems to work perfectly without these changes…

  2. Chris says:
    February 17, 2007 at 10:31 am

    But it doesn’t use ESD without those changes :P I can assure you of that, without those changes I have to stop mpd to hear flash sound then once it is done close Firefox restart mpd and reopen Firefox again because flash leaves file handles open.

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