Re: Audio output in Friefox
Greg V <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11 |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 1:46 AM, Grzegorz Junka <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 01/07/2018 21:49, Greg V wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 12:27 PM, Grzegorz Junka <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 01/07/2018 03:03, Adam wrote: >>>> On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 6:40 PM, Grzegorz Junka <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> Firefox options allow to use ALSA/JACK/PulseAudio/SndIO as >>>> audio >>>> output. Assuming that more than one is selected, how can I >>>> switch >>>> which one Firefox should use? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> GrzegorzJ >>>> >>>> >>>> pkg info -D firefox >>> >>> Excellent, thank you Adam! Do you know why Jack is being selected >>> by default rather than Alsa or even OSS, which also seems to be >>> working fine? >> >> Maybe because you have a JACK server running? >> >> It's always been 'pulse-rust' for me. >> > > Yes, I do have the JACK server configured and running, but should > that be enough to enable this particular backend by default? OSS and > Alsa are also available. Why choose JACK over them? I am not > complaining, just trying to understand how the selection happens, > i.e. if it's automatic or hardcoded in some FreeBSD patches or > Firefox code. > Firefox automatically chooses the "best" available backend. If you have JACK running, it uses JACK. If you have PulseAudio available, it uses PulseAudio. Otherwise, ALSA or OSS. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"