Flash sound issues on vista

May 18th, 2007

I installed Windows Vista today and besides having problems getting familiar with the new look and locations of stuff, I found that the onSoundComplete event is completely out of time on any player I tested. So even in the standalone with the classic design it is really glitchy. Damm, this breaks my flow in programming audio stuff for flash. I am really thinking of getting back to XP for the time it isn't fixed. I found this blog entry, but I do not have the sound card settings as him.

Any change to get some official notes on this?

Filed under: actionscript

11 Responses to “Flash sound issues on vista”

  1. Don Park Says:
    May 18th, 2007 at 10:26 pm

    Yikes. This is the kind of crap that contributed to shelving my own flash audio project. Hope you find a solution that doesn’t require users to fiddle with configuration or a wait for Flash update.

  2. mr.doob Says:
    May 19th, 2007 at 12:28 am

    I knew i didn’t have to install Vista :) XP is all we need :D

  3. sascha/hdrs Says:
    May 19th, 2007 at 4:24 am

    So it really is because of Vista! Interesting! Vista seems to be often troublesome when it comes to audio/video because of the ridiculous Content protection systems. I have to endure with the crappy SoundMAX driver until M-Audio decides to give their customers Vista drivers. Apart from that I think Vista is so far the less-worst Windows version made.

  4. sascha/hdrs Says:
    May 19th, 2007 at 4:32 am

    PS: Seems that turning of Vista Sound enhancements doesn’t help this problem, at least here it changed nothing about it. :/

  5. sascha/hdrs Says:
    May 19th, 2007 at 4:36 am

    PS2: The Sound Enhancement option can be found under Control Panel/Sound, then select the Speakers icon and click the Properties button then there’s an Enhancements tab. Very well hidden … like always on Windows!

  6. André Michelle Says:
    May 19th, 2007 at 5:07 am

    I am running the business version, so there is no such enhancement tab. However I will get rid of Vista as soon as possible.

  7. Tek Says:
    May 19th, 2007 at 9:28 pm

    Do you have the same problem under Firefox and Internet Explorer ?

  8. André Michelle Says:
    May 20th, 2007 at 2:32 pm

    tek: every player, plugin, whatever…

    Anyway, I am back online with XP ;)

  9. sascha/hdrs Says:
    May 20th, 2007 at 5:49 pm

    You’re back on XP Andre, but that doesn’t make the problem go away for Vista users. ;]
    I hope Adobe can fix that if it can be fixed. Otherwise we know how Microsoft loves to push other technologies off from their platform … don’t we?!!

  10. André Michelle Says:
    May 20th, 2007 at 9:05 pm

    sascha: you are right. ‘my’ problem of developing audio stuff in flash is solved. But having all people with the flashplayer installed can listen to it isn’t. I just wanted to point out, that I don’t like vista at all;)

    However, I think adobe or/and microsoft have to force a solution. This will be very difficult from the business view. Too sad. We just have to wait…

  11. Lublin og?oszenia Says:
    April 15th, 2008 at 12:16 pm

    I use Win XP and everything is ok. I agree with sascha/hdrs “Microsoft loves to push other technologies off from their platform” – really true.

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