Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 17:38:39 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best sound subsystem for freebsd for a desktop Message-ID: <20200519173839.8e758dc3.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20200519141914.GF23072@bastion.zyxst.net> References: <20200519141914.GF23072@bastion.zyxst.net>
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Personal opinion follows. On Tue, 19 May 2020 15:19:14 +0100, tech-lists wrote: > What's in thes list's opinion would be the "best" sound setup for a freebsd > desktop? The use case is this: > > 1. things like youtube videos, twitter multimedia, playable on firefox, Works fully as expected. > 2. vlc for streaming etc No problem. > 3. system noises like you'd expect from a desktop Depends on the desktop environment you use, and how it is configured to entertain, erm annoy the user. I don't expect a desktop to make any noises, unless the head is banged onto it. :-) > 4. 12.1-stable > 5. pcm3 Realtek ALC1150 2+1 config Doesn't look non-standard. :-) > Reason for the question is partly because there's all kinds of "sound system" > like pulseaudio alsa jack oss ... which is the best for my use case? Probably OSS, because as far as I'm aware of, most programs default to OSS (on FreeBSD) anyway. All the other "sound systems" are just specific one-off cases for certain applications that depend on them. You also forgot to mention ESD and SDL. ;-) > The other > reason is there seems to be a lag between selecting something to play like a > youtube video and sound coming out. Something like 2-5 seconds; it's annoying > and I have no idea how to diagnose it or fix it. Any clues please? That looks very strange. Do you have significant load problems on your machine (check with convenient tools like htop)? Is this just a "YouTube in the browser" problem? Does it lead to unsynchronized playback (audio is 5 seconds behind video)? If you download something from YT using youtube-dl and then play the file with mplayer, do you see the same problem? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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