On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 08:30:49AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 05:04:20PM +0100, Adrien Fernandes wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > Since Mozilla stopped support of OSS, NetBSD users have no sound on > > Firefox anymore so here is one the way to get back sound on Internet, > > very easy. > > If the question is "how to use pulseaudio", one can follow these. > > If the question is "whether to use pulseaudio", do look at this: > > https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bugs/2015/10/05/msg057949.html
I dislike pulseaudio for both architectural and performance reasons, so I adopted the option outlined in the above pkgsrc-bugs link and it did allow me to play audio in Firefox 41 without pulseaudio. Someone pointed me to Jack audio as a good alternative to Pulseaudio, so I looked and found the following bugzilla entry where there is discussion of using Jack audio as a backend: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783733 I see that there is a pkgsrc package for Jack, so maybe I'll explore integrating it into Firefox if I have time. Or has someone already gotten this to work? -- Roy Bixler <[email protected]> "The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment." -- Richard P. Feynman
