[arch-general] bluetooth headset vs. Flash Player

[Curtis Shimamoto]

On 03/26/13 at 08:06pm, Nelson Marambio wrote:
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> Hi, folks,
> 
> since I switched from a wired USB headset to a bluetooth headset I've
> got problem - using GNOME - with flash based sites like youtube. Sound
> is not send to the headset but to the internal speakers of my laptop.
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> Every other media player uses the headset for output but not flash.
> Does anyone know why and how to fix it ?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Nelson.
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I believe flash is not capable of using pulseaudio directly.  So it uses
alsa.  In order to get this to work, you need to configure alsa to use
pulseaudio.  This is particularly easy, as the necessary configuration is
the only content found in the pulseaudio-alsa package.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#Flash_Content
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Curtis Shimamoto
sugar.and.scruffy [at] gmail.com