[arch-general] Firefox 52 Audio broken

[Allan McRae]

On 08/03/17 08:14, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> On 03/07/2017 05:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 22:18:19 +0100, LoneVVolf wrote:
>>> On 07-03-17 21:14, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 16:00:18 +0100, Carlchristian Eckert wrote:  
>>>>> As a workaround, have you tried using apulse? It is a pulseaudio
>>>>> emulation for ALSA. Some time ago, I used it successfully to run
>>>>> Skype (which also depends on pulseaudio) without having pulseaudio
>>>>> installed.  
>>>>
>>>> I don't know, if the required asoundrc could have impact on real-time
>>>> pro-audio usage. I won't test it.  
>>>
>>> I just tested apulse-git successfully, no changes to my alsa setup
>>> were needed.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> I confirm that apulse-git works with Firefox 52.0-1 and an asoundrc
>> isn't required :).
> 
> Keep in mind that firefox 52.0-2 uses "ac_add_options --enable-alsa"
> 
> Carry on...
> 

Until firefox-54, which will return to pulse because it breaks alsa...

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