On 2016-07-14 17:49, Mike Hoye wrote:
On 2016-07-13 10:31 PM, ajo...@mozilla.com wrote:
Our official Firefox builds on Linux support both PulseAudio and ALSA.
There are a number of additional contributed backends that can be
turned on at compile time, although contribution towards long-term
maintenance and matching feature parity with the actively developed
backends has been low. On Linux, we actively maintain the PulseAudio
backend but we also approach the PulseAudio developers when we see
issues in PulseAudio. The PulseAudio developers are generally good to
work with.
FWIW all of Arch, Fedora, Debian (including Raspian), (U/Ku/Xu)buntu,
Mint, OpenSUSE ship PulseAudio by default, and have for a long time.
You've got to work pretty hard to find a desktop linux distribution that
doesn't; even Gentoo and Android-x86 have it reliably available.
At least according to https://wiki.debian.org/PulseAudio, on Debian you
don't get it by default when installing xfce or lxde. But I guess you
can argue what by default means.
I also wonder how this fallback thing works. Things are linked to the
pulseaudio library, but if the pulseaudio binary isn't installed things
fall back to something else like alsa as far as I know. Is this
something the pulseaudio library does, or do you need to write the
fallback yourself?
Kurt
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