Re: Audio output from firefox

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2017, scole_mail wrote:

> I think there were some old threads in netbsd-users mentioning you need
> to maybe install alsa-plugins-oss and/or alsa-plugins-pulse, and
> configure an ~/.asoundrc file properly.  I think alsa-lib and alsa-utils
> might be useful to have as well.  This seems too complicated for me.

Too complicated for me, too!

> I tried to build firefox with oss using these options:
> env PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS="-alsa dbus oss -pulseaudio"
> Sound would work, but only on that one tab.  If I closed that first tab,
> or tried to play sound on a new tab, it stopped working.
>
> So I tried firefox with pulseaudio:
> env PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS="-alsa dbus pulseaudio"
> This allowed sound in multiple tabs and can play concurrent sounds with
> other programs, like mplayer.

So, essentially, remove 'alsa' - hmmm.

> I still get occasional errors like:
> W: [(null)] caps.c: Normally all extra capabilities would be dropped now, but that's impossible because PulseAudio was built without capabilities support.
>
> but readjusting the volume seems to fix it.
>
> I saw sound was being working on in current, so I'm not sure if the same
> problems exist, but for the least fussy setup, pulseaudio seemed best to
> me.
>
> If alsa is the firefox default sound option now, maybe the package
> should display some of message with example setup on how to configure it
> properly upon installation if it can't be done automagically.

Yeah, automagically would be preferable for me!  :)

Since it is built with both alsa and pulseaudio, is there a way to 
invoke firefox with some command-line option to select which one to use?


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