On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 01:19:44PM -0700, Swift Griggs wrote: > On Thu, 19 Nov 2015, Roy Bixler wrote: > >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. > > This discussion is a bit confusing. Firefox is able to play audio just fine > on my NetBSD 7.0 box without me running pulseaudio. I'm speaking > specifically of Flash doing the audio-playing. Since you already seem to > know what a disappointing experience using Pulseaudio can be, I'm wondering > why folks are fiddling with it at all? Why not just let Flash play via > BSD/SUN audio? That works fine on my setup. Do you guys have some special > requirements?
I think the problem is that recent default pkgsrc and binary distributions of firefox use pulseaudio. I'm really not sure why. I know it confused me because it used to work just fine without pulseaudio. I compiled a custom firefox with oss support so that I could play HTML5 videos with audio and without pulseaudio. For comparison, I have an installation of the firefox38 binary package and adobe-flash11 plugin and it doesn't seem to need pulseaudio. I'm happy with this as well. > >Someone pointed me to Jack audio as a good alternative to Pulseaudio, > > I'd run Esound (esd), Network Audio Server (NAS), JACK, or even aRts/Phonon > before I stooped to running Pulseaudio. Agreed. > >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? > > Jack should work, but again, I'm wondering why you want that versus just > letting it talk to /dev/audio ? > > This might be of some interest to you: > > http://jackaudio.org/faq/routing_flash.html As long as the OSS option works, then there's no particular reason for me. I mainly hope that the firefox packagers would consider using something other than pulseaudio as the default. -- 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
