Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 15:18:34 -0500 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no sound in firefox youtube videos (HTML5) Message-ID: <n3adrb$4hl$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <565832B6.9050505@gmail.com> <56585E61.5000406@gmx.de> <56588D3F.1030001@gmail.com>
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Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: > Thank you very much: I rebuild firefox without selecting pulseaudio, and > it works now! It's not very clear to me why alsa and pulseaudio are > incompatible (since you can select them both), but I am quite happy with > the results. > [snip] Alsa is low level hardware and drivers. Pulseaudio is more or less an audio sound mixer/server that runs on top as an extra layer. Applications that are designed to utilize pulseaudio need to have a library or method coded to be able to access it. If they don't then pulseasudio being a layer in between will only serve to block access to the lower levels. -Mike
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