Flash video and no sound on OSX
One of the newer technologies on the web are the flash video players used by Google Video and YouTube.
Every once in a while though, on Mac OS X it can happen that these Flash video players don’t have sound anymore.
It is pretty hard to figure out why, and the solution is quite random, but on macosxhints I found a comment mentioning that it could be a sampling rate problem:
- open
/Applications/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup - check the properties for Built In Output.
- It might be set to 96KHz. Change it to 44KHz and audio in Flash will return immediately.
Now, I don’t know what software it is messing up that setting, but I am glad it can be fixed.
I am still wondering why the Flash player would care about MIDI settings. Obviously it’s no MIDI file that is being played as movie sound there.
March 28th, 2008 at 10:29 am
This fix doesn’t work for me.
Does anybody know any other solutions to exactly this problem???
Thanks.
April 13th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
This happens for me every time I open up a lot of clips all the time. It must be that either or all of Adobe Flash (definitly), Safari (definitly but is it related?) and OS X (well? not likely maybe) suck.
April 27th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
On my system, it’s the Audacity software that causes the change. I’ve fixed it by going to Audio Midi Setup before, but this time it’s not fixing the problem.
April 30th, 2008 at 3:50 am
THANK YOU SO VERY much for this!! I called apple and they could not tell me this. I had lost sound but only on some of my games nothing else??? THIS WAS the FIX!!! I’m thinkin one of my games is the culprit but at least now I can fix the problem thanks to you!!!!
April 30th, 2008 at 3:53 am
You’re welcome, Lynda. Glad I could help.