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.
Did not work. Tried everything, also we produce flash streaming media sites as a core business and as you would expect are let down by adobes and apples complete lack of support on this issue. It is obvious adobe have not changed their ways and neither have apple. Very very poor showing by both companies.