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["C. Jeffery Small" <jeff@xxxxxxxx>]

Here is some additional information relating to this issue.

As best as I can tell, the Opera browser (ver. 12.16) is using the same
plugins as Firefox (32).  When I visit the following page:

http://flash.flowplayer.org/plugins/flash/content.html

Opera produces audio output with this video while Firefox does not.
Opera also seems to properly produce audio in flash youtube videos in
flash mode while Firefox cannot -- although if the FF flash plugin is
disabled, youtube videos will fall over to HTML5 mode and then audio is
produced.  Chromium works well in all situations with it's own Flash
11.2.r999 plugin.

The following site:

http://www.radioio.com/channels/jazz/real-jazz/play/?play

is a streaming radio channel that has worked well in the past.  It
currently plays with Firefox 31 on my Solaris system and Firefox 32 on
Windows XP.  It also plays fine using the Ubuntu Chromium browser.
However, it fails to load (i.e. connect) to the stream on both Firefox
and Opera.  I include this in the hope that it offers additional clues
as to what is wrong here.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1365847

Title:
  Firefox audio problem with flash plugin

Status in “flashplugin-nonfree” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Xeon E5 64 bit system
  Xubuntu 14.04.1
  Firefox 32.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.400ubuntu0.14.04.1

  Audio plays properly on this system through all media players as well
  as the Chrome and Opera browsers.  However, no sound was issuing from
  the Firefox 31 or 32 browsrs regardless of what video or audio source
  was selected.  After considerable work and a joint investigation with
  a Mozilla developer:

  see:  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1062556

  it was determined that the proble was with the Shockwave Flash plugin.
  When this plugin was disabled, sources such as youtube would see that
  flash support was unavailable and resort to HTML5 which plays audio
  just fine.  However, disabling the flash plugin means that all flash
  content is unavailable -- both video and audio.

  This plugin interface needs to be investigated and repaired so that
  audio support can be restored.

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