Re: (tutorial) How to use PulseAudio on NetBSD

[Roy Bixler <rcbixler%nyx.net@localhost>]

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?

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