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List:       freebsd-ports
Subject:    Re: Firefox and sndio
From:       Matthieu Volat <mazhe () alkumuna ! eu>
Date:       2017-01-29 13:13:24
Message-ID: 20170129141324.1554eb6e () freedom ! alkumuna ! eu
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On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 12:53:10 +0300
abi <abi@abinet.ru> wrote:

> On 29.01.2017 05:10, Jan Beich wrote:
> > Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> writes:
> > 
> > > On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 14:58:51 +0000
> > > Grzegorz Junka <list1@gjunka.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On 28/01/2017 11:37, Tobias Kortkamp wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2017, at 11:23, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
> > > > > > Audio in Firefox seems to be working fine when ALSA is enabled. But when
> > > > > > ALSA is disabled and only SNDIO is enabled there is no sound. In either
> > > > > > case I had PULSEAUDIO disabled. What's the expected configuration for
> > > > > > this to work?
> > > > > Is sndiod running?  If not:
> > > > > 
> > > > > sysrc sndiod_enable=YES
> > > > > service sndiod start
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks Tobias. That helped. Out of interest. Is there any reason why I
> > > > should prefer either SNDIO, PUlSEAUDIO or ALSA?
> > > 
> > > This currently creates a problem for those of us using Firefox from
> > > packages because the default build has SNDIO turned off.
> > > 
> > > $ pkg info firefox
> > [...]
> > > ALSA           : on
> > [...]
> > > PULSEAUDIO     : on
> > [...]
> > > SNDIO          : off
> > 
> > Only backends that support lazy bindings are enabled by default i.e.,
> > try PULSEAUDIO, if N/A fallback to ALSA, if N/A fallback to native OSS.
> > SNDIO has lower priority than ALSA in libcubeb but higher in WebRTC and
> > cannot fallback to native OSS as well. SNDIO currently doesn't work
> > inside jail and neither sndiod nor Firefox support Capsicum sandboxing,
> > so falling back to ALSA (or OSS) is important.
> 
> Why OSS is not added to port options? OSS is that, probably, all of us have.

I was about the bring the subject, obviously there is no OSS support in firefox yet \
(!!!), but there is an ongoing work on mozilla's bugzilla:

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1021761

Did somebody tried to streamline/backport it? With firefox-esr, the latest version do \
not apply, and I've issue autoreconf-ing after applying previous versions...

-- Matthieu Volat


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