Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2020 15:47:26 -0500 From: Theron <theron.tarigo@gmail.com> To: Andy Farkas <andyf@andyit.com.au>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sound Message-ID: <f4e133fe-6d1b-776e-e13c-76319e32c862@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8e7d5ac1-43a7-e3e3-223d-b50440b21398@andyit.com.au> References: <8e7d5ac1-43a7-e3e3-223d-b50440b21398@andyit.com.au>
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On 2020-02-08 15:12, Andy Farkas wrote: > I don't need "sound server support" - all I want is to play MP3 files > (mplayer) and watch utUbe videos. And the occasional game of warzone2000. I leave default options for firefox and mplayer. In this case, Mplayer uses OSS (FreeBSD's native sound driver interface) directly, and Firefox uses sndio to access it. Both work very well*. No sound server is needed, nor do these apps' ports attempt to install one. * provided I am not disconnecting the sound device in middle of playback - that always causes a problem, unless I do run a sound server, such as virtual_oss.
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