From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue May 19 15:38:47 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40EDA2DC895 for ; Tue, 19 May 2020 15:38:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.135]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mout.kundenserver.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass Class 2 CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49RKmP5QHpz3TXq for ; Tue, 19 May 2020 15:38:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de ([94.222.15.198]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue009 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 1MIMXE-1jpJON3zDo-00EMxD; Tue, 19 May 2020 17:38:40 +0200 Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 17:38:39 +0200 From: Polytropon To: tech-lists 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> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:Z9F97uM05krczk86yPoDpOk9HexngTj9uU/Ti39Meaffyf7CiVf hBVucybY7HNNE71gPRNvKgJwl2lnBC033OYdqkqOig7K2EILnhnwNHBo/4r3Doklp+g8LH+ A+lE4y9Y792zsr0gI5oc/47dxmslCtvNC5d5QoebpMGCvLOa8HcDRVNLaIq+Nzh5tJ3AJJy 2OtFi5KrGUY/CngW/XTFA== X-Spam-Flag: NO X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:l7JKaUUtsDI=:WztMOEtTU4MDqBwG3Na3rc xKsFZJpLR/2pwU7E3D9i70r4xH34ejQ8ZJXgMPt8acO/HbRZWFVYjR9UdD8UmoSpW3XJjKjht u0w5v3O7W9VslODYbCqYzT/MJLR91klqowIfYbadrNou1bpIyfB2QY9tnxLB6GKNlosdyFrBQ V338ihFazdOAUn54CkFYIxL5qg0fI1QK8+6YqqcelHTemKhZesJbZrZ7/+7m8eUcanV8eNIG9 wdxqwxXp04QIYcbMzVD3luIQ1ruijxoko/zYD6qIZswSilFv6yhQxRExXJm9RGibozjHTw7HO OPrRWL8dSbDCzzOnlDN8hCj8/2WrcZlDKJXcCP9758Xe/g1TRHzSBT/1H5r1Lp9n2lkNY0SnG lAHcJDmWfOCHEM6TL6kEUMHzPMTFue+wxb4joeDOb9yhcVm1HdCzDvByrzSx26uO7sEhR9i9G BH/x4QsQdA0PaVHeJxCanyAyancfdpoziiaUWHEvHsvS37N6k/kvSo41M+vPrbt3eZml8xaA+ PQlG088ghoH7UrDMGZLObGCu41PIWahTRBl2yhrerrfWaD7AbpboNdrMUV2r8ME26yIoDlHmC bkuwrDmB+XHP+OldIxlhRIJohUuHVwIFbpA5jtVwGWR6eHc5MwsPNh25fNEZXA1UJR3RpZQde 4kHue2oOV9lOIAuqLrdNbdxdAfSH+eD3zt0b09LCsh+ryaK1OZojsQbYoeQ/V41z9FXdLueFg o4e1vrLiP7nA/Z6Nvbt01jk6ijyo6C77/CyNqV23fs/ui186oBKseIBKmkERE55gjDVO0PJo1 pJnNwxCOh/zDFXkdn4LIqyexl3Sg08d+G1OhL9UgNmOQwaU0qet2K2p02z9xoGgmfOLGQ3v X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 49RKmP5QHpz3TXq X-Spamd-Bar: +++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of freebsd@edvax.de has no SPF policy when checking 212.227.126.135) smtp.mailfrom=freebsd@edvax.de X-Spamd-Result: default: False [3.39 / 15.00]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[freebsd@edvax.de]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; REPLYTO_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.40)[0.400]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[edvax.de]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.59)[0.587]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MID_CONTAINS_FROM(1.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[212.227.126.135:from]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[no SPF record]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:8560, ipnet:212.227.0.0/16, country:DE]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[94.222.15.198:received] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 15:38:47 -0000 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, ...