On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 6:49 PM, <rec9...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why does a BROWSER need 5.1 or x.y sound???
The web platform is intended to be a competitive alternative to native platforms. That means that whatever native applications can do, we'd like web applications to be able to do as well, and that includes playing 5.1 sound. As an (important) example, I imagine there is a growing segment of users who watch T.V. shows and movies through a computer running Netflix in a browser, and some of those users want the browser to be able to play 5.1 sound. Anyways, there is no conflict between supporting ALSA and supporting 5.1 sound. As has been mentioned earlier in the thread, ALSA has since added support for 5.1, and so IIUC it's just our wrapper library (libcubeb) that needs the support added. > and remove your spying telemetry too First, I don't see how collecting aggregate technical statistics like what fraction of our Linux users use PulseAudio and what fraction use ALSA, is a threat to anyone's privacy or otherwise constitutes "spying". Second, continuing to opt out of telemetry will just make problems like this worse. As was stated in this thread, one of the justifications for removing ALSA support was that the telemetry numbers showed a very little ALSA usage. If more ALSA users had telemetry enabled, perhaps the outcome would have been different. Cheers, Botond _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
