I like this proposal, if not interferes with any other feature, performance or license.
El 16/12/17 a les 12:41, Damien Zammit ha escrit: > Hi there, > > I know a lot of users who would really like their browser to have native > JACK audio support (see jackaudio.org). Last year I managed to convince > Mozilla to accept a patch that improved the existing JACK audio backend > within Firefox to use a callback model instead of a synchronous one and > also made inclusion of the JACK code a compile time option. > > Mozilla have never enabled the JACK code by refusing to `--enable-jack` > within their default builds. They have made it clear that they don't > want to support their users to use yet another audio backend for > mainstream firefox. > > However, I would like to suggest that IceCat switch on --enable-jack at > compile time so that advanced audio users can route their browser audio > into other programs with ease. This would enable, eg, musicians to jam > live to streaming sites such as youtube and record their mixed jam > sessions into another program (such as Ardour). > > Other use cases are such as, those who dislike the cludgey pulseaudio > system and still want audio from their browser (ALSA backend is going > away soon ?) > > I hope you folks like my suggestion and for your convenience, I have > included a patch on savannah to switch it on if you decide to include it. > > NB: Including the compile time flag does not force JACK-only audio, it > only uses jack if jackd server is running, otherwise it falls back to > default behaviour. > > Cheers, > Damien > > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org > -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
