Hi Robin, dear list, I am taking up this old thread from more than a year ago. I am wondering what the status of html5 audio through jack in the firefox browser is on Linux? Debian lists the following versions for the firefox-esr package: 52.4.0esr-1~deb9u1 for stable and 52.4.0esr-2 for testing Both packages do not seem to rely on libjack, so I suppose no jack support in there for now? Does anyone know more? thanks! P * Robin Gareus <robin@xxxxxxxxxx> [2016-06-15 17:17]: > On 06/15/2016 03:02 PM, hollundertee@xxxxxxx wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 12:18:05 +0200 > > Robin Gareus <robin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> On 06/15/2016 10:00 AM, Peter P. wrote: > >>> Hi list, > >>> > >>> I have been search the archives and the web a bit and it seems > >>> there is no easy way to route html5 audio playback from firefox > >>> through jack on Debian testing. > >> > >> Wait for another week or three. > >> > >> Firefox/git features native JACK input & output since last week. > >> Largely thanks to Damien Zammit. > >> > >> > >> Cheers! > >> robin > > > > This is barely believable. My experience so far was that browsers allow > > practically no user control over audio whatsoever. > > Given that browsers nowadays are audio/video players, game engines and > > whatnot this is ridiculuous, but also understandable, since browsers > > are supposed to be everything but the kitchen sink (or "die eierlegende > > Wollmilchsau" to use this wonderful German term. > > Web browsers are the very definition of scope creep. > > You can't expect those things to do everything or anything properly. > > yep. The the actual browser processing is not RT-safe. There's a buffer > (and resampler) in between jack and the sandboxed browser/engine. > > So web-audio javascript etc is not using elevated privileges, probably a > good thing, so it can't take down jack :) > > > In which ff version is it supposed to be available? I will try it but I > > won't hold my breath. > > > > I don't know. > > Firefox (and other mozilla products) uses "cubeb" a Cross platform audio > library for audio i/o. JACK support was merged upstream there: > https://github.com/kinetiknz/cubeb > > The --enable-jack configuration option for FF is still sitting here: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783733 > > If you can't wait, just compile your own firefox/iceweasel (apt-get > build-dep... ; apt-get source...) > > ciao, > robin > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
