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Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone



Michael Lange wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 15:55:34 -0400
> Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> 
> > Kaj Persson wrote: 
> > > I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is
> > > by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which
> > > is the best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa be
> > > the one and only audio system? Are there any serious disadvantages
> > > doing so?
> > 
> > There is one serious disadvantage: Firefox doesn't support audio
> > in any other way except PulseAudio.
> 
> is that actually true? Here I can watch videos on yt or vimeo for example
> in firefox with sound perfectly intact without pulseaudio installed.
> In which situations does sound in ff not work?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661

That was two years ago.

-dsr-


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