Well, there is not need to use Firefox or any web browser just to listen Hilary Hahn on YouTube, and record her performance on the console. Install mps-youtube then type mpyst and press h for help. You can also use xfb-run to use Firefox without starting X. Try this: xvfb-run -a firefox --headless https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1dBg__wsuo Best, Didier -- Didier Spaier Slint project http://slint.fr On 11/01/2019 16:04, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > I use patchelf to make Firefox use apulse by default, and while I have > a few packages on my system that suggest or recommend pulseaudio, they > all work just fine with just libpulse, and these two are tiny compared > to everything the pulseaudio metapackage wants to install. Also, I > presently have nothing installed that depends on jack. > > I'll admit, it would be nice if I could have Orca and YouTube speaking > at reasonable volume simultaneously without having to use > headphones(presently, having Orca speak normally leaves YouTube > Whispering even with YouTube's volume slider at max and having YouTube > at a reasonable volume leavs Orca shouting, though this only seems to > happen with my desktop's internal speaker and headphones seems to > equalize them). > > Admittedly, I don't use my desktop for playing multimedia from local > storage and only use it for YouTube because I have nothing else that > can play YouTube, and if I did have something else that could play > YouTube, I'd ditch apulse since I'd be fine with a silent Firefox > otherwise, and if it wasn't for Firefox, I'd ditch the GUI all > together(Sadly, I can't go a day without visiting at least one website > that needs Javascript to work, and the navigational hotkeys Orca adds > to Firefox and other graphical web browsers are just too dang > convenient and I know of no way to get an equivalent feature in > text-only browsers). > > Maybe I'm a bit obsessed with minimalism(I was an lxde user prior to > blindness, and even then, did as much from within lxterminal as I did > on the desktop, had a single panel in the style of Win9x, and had no > icons to mar my wallpaper), but I like having a root partition whose > contents could fit uncompressed on a CD, the Pulseaudio metapackage > and its dependencies weigh more than the heaviest application on my > system, and I've heard nothing to suggest pulseaudio provides benefit > proportionate to its size, but plenty to suggest getting it to do > anything might make my life harder(Admittedly, I'm hesitant to try > anything that messes with a working sound config, what with sound > being my sole means of output). > > To each their own, but I'm quite content without it and intend to > resist efforts to force me to use it for the foreseeable future. > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list