Audio stopped working on Flash/Ubuntu

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#1

I could have sworn I had audio working on Flash with my Ubuntu VM. It doesn’t work any more.

I tried:

  • Reinstalling the Flash player
  • Reverting to an older, known, good version of my game code
  • Restarting my VM
  • Playing other flash games (audio works)
  • Running my code on Windows (audio works – same machine)

None of this seems effective. Is there a way to troubleshoot this?

#2

Double-derp: this only happens in one of my two Ubuntu VMs.

@singmajesty any idea what I should do to fix this?

#3

This sounds like an incompatibility with 1.) your host system 2.) the VM player you use and 3.) the virtual audio driver used

I have a feeling that using a different VM player, a different virtual audio driver or a different virtualized OS install could make the difference, strange though

#4

I’m not sure. I’m 95% sure it used to work on that specific VM + host, and I didn’t update any drivers (physical or virtual).

I’ll try reinstalling OpenFL. If other flash apps can play audio fine on that specific VM, it’s probably not that.

THanks for your input.

#5

I reinstalled everything, but no luck. That’s disappointing. I guess I’m stuck.

#6

So tell me again, audio works in a native C++ or Neko build? It works in a standard Flash build? It does not work in a Haxe Flash build, is that correct?

#7

It’s something specific to the environment. Please don’t waste any more time on this. I can run Neko, or run my SWF in FireFox, or use the same Chrome version on a different VM, all successfully.

To be explicit, all of the following work:

  • Same SWF in FireFox
  • Any other SWF with audio in Chrome
  • Using Neko
  • The same setup on a different Ubuntu VM (with the same version of Chrome)
  • The same setup on Windows (host machine)

It’s just something weird. I’ll try switching to Neko, but as I mentioned on a GitHub issue, it’s frustrating when my VM completely crashes and I have to restart it. I can open a new thread about that if you’re interested (I’m guessing you’re not).

#8

You could install trying a standalone Flash player, it’s not totally simple to do in Linux, but it’s another potential option for Flash testing, otherwise you might set Firefox as the default browser for testing

#9

Yes, I think I will just use Firefox for testing my app. Maybe the problem will eventually fix itself. I would like to switch to Neko, but the VM crashes make it quite unusable.

I also synch everything on DropBox, so I can easily run it on Windows, too.