546993 - HTML5 videos audio doesn't work with another audio playing

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Audio/Video, defect)

Description

[Daniel Lombraña González]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

When you have a player like Rhythmbox playing music and you are browsing a website with HTML5 video, the sound from the video doesn't work, you only hear the sound of the Rhythmbox player. It seems like Firefox is not natively using Pulseaudio.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Rhythmbox and play some music
2. Open http://www.dailymotion.com/openvideodemo
3. Play the video
4. You only hear the music from Rhythmbox.
Actual Results:  
You can only hear the Rhythmbox sound.

Expected Results:  
The sound of the video should be mixed with the audio of the music player.

Comment 1

[cajbir (:cajbir)]

What Linux distribution are you using? You probably need to configure PulseAudio to play nicely with ALSA (Firefox uses ALSA) using dmix.

Comment 2

[Daniel Lombraña González]

I'm using Ubuntu Hardy LTS. I have checked the ALSA setup with PulseAudio and was not working. Now I have fixed, and everything plays well. Thanks for the tip.