Audio on Evan Hoffman

Home Theater Sound on the Cheap

Thu, 19 Dec 2013 23:23:47 +0000

In 2009 I got my first HDTV, a Digital Lifestyles 42" from NewEgg. The reviews were mixed but the common theme was that this screen had a great picture and terrible sound. I decided to take a chance, and if the sound was really that bad I’d figure something out.

Well, turned out the sound was, in fact, terrible. Not merely tinny, the speakers crackled and popped, and were essentially unusable. To my relief, the TV had a headphone jack on the side, so I got a set of Logitech X-230 computer speakers, plugged them into the headphone jack and the problem was solved - for a mere $35. The sound was really impressive for such a cheap setup and best of all the volume could still be controlled via the TV remote.

Flash plugin on Firefox on Fedora 12 x86_64

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:36:54 +0000

I know I’ve been through this before because I’ve setup Fedora before and it’s working. But I just installed FC12 on my desktop at home (since my Seagate drive bricked itself a few days ago and I had to reinstall anyway) and while I finally got the Adobe Flash plugin working, it didn’t have any audio, which made YouTube kind of suck. Anyway, this of course was a solved problem, I just forgot where the fix was located… but duh, it’s on the Fedora website. A simple

HOWTO: Install Flash plugin on Firefox on Fedora / CentOS / RedHat Linux

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:36:54 +0000

Updated 8/31/2011 See my newer post on this subject.