[X2Go-Dev] Issue with sound

[John Williams]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:41 PM, newsgroups.mail2 at stefanbaur.de
<newsgroups.mail2 at stefanbaur.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWqP-ejD6qA on a Debian
> Squeeze server ("pure" stable) with x2go's stable packages. Client is
> Windows 7, 32-bit.
> While it seems to work at first, the browser will lock up after a while
> and/or sound will simply cease to work.
> The issue is the same with the current as well as the older clients, and
> playing with the settings didn't help, either: With some settings, it
> basically works, but has the issues described above, with others, the
> session won't start at all or no sound is available.

Have you tried disabling "Use SSH port forwarding to tunnel sound
system connections through firewalls"?

I find that is the only way to get sound (and videos with sound) to
work reliably with the Windows x2goclient. Except with client 3.01-13
(and earlier), where that is not necessary.