This is a workaround to force Firefox use Sun Audio (/dev/audio) instead of OSS (/dev/dsp). The OSS code in Firefox has a bug. I'm fixing the bug in Firefox 3.6.6.
Ginn On Jun 25, 2010, at 10:17 PM, Ghee Teo wrote: > On 06/25/10 01:20 PM, Ginn Chen wrote: >> I'm confused. >> On my x86 box, with Firefox 3.7 alpha 5, without UTAUDIODEV, the audio and >> video is synced. >> With UTAUDIODEV=/dev/audio, the audio is a bit behind of the video. >> > I thought UTAUDIODEV is owned by Sun Ray, primarily for audio re-direction. > How is it now being used to sync up audio and vide? > > -Ghee >> I think the reason is for /dev/audio the buffer of the device is bigger than >> /dev/dsp. >> I'll try to fix it in Firefox 4.0. >> >> Ginn >> >> On Jun 25, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Hillel Lubman wrote: >> >> >>>> For old builds, please try this workaround, >>>> export UTAUDIODEV=/dev/audio >>>> >>> Sorry, I meant other way around - with UTAUDIODEV=/dev/audio audio gets >>> ahead of video (video is stalled for some time in the beginning). >>> >>> Hillel. >>> -- >>> This message posted from opensolaris.org >>> _______________________________________________ >>> desktop-discuss mailing list >>> desktop-discuss@opensolaris.org >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss@opensolaris.org >> > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ desktop-discuss mailing list desktop-discuss@opensolaris.org
