Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

[Dale]

Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:22 AM Matt Connell (Gmail)
> <matthewdconnell@×××××.com <mailto:matthewdconnell@×××××.com>> wrote:
> >
> > On 2020-05-05 10:38, tuxic@××××××.de <mailto:tuxic@××××××.de> wrote:
> > > Is Firefox/Waterfox able to interface with jackd?
> >
> > Disclaimer, I do not use Jack.
> >
> > Firefox builds, in my personal experience, are intended to be used with
> > pulseaudio and only pulseaudio.  Some people have made some shims for
> > making it worth with alsa, but they don't look sustainable.
> >
> > As the other poster said, this endeavor is likely to result in
> > frustration.  You may get it to 'work' for some value of that word, but
> > depending on expectations, it may not be worth your while.
>
> I think Matt makes an excellent point. The solution you're looking for
> these days really 
> is pulseaudio, not Jack. pulseaudio handles multiple sound source
> applications, can
> route to multiple sound cards, and provides rudimentary metering so
> you can see 
> what's going on. I have no experience using it on anything other than
> KDE but these 
> days I feel it does a good job at what it's designed for. 


Question, somewhat off topic but somewhat on topic.  I use smplayer to
send my videos to my TV using the second port on my video card.  I set
smplayer to send the audio to the TV, instead of my puter speakers. 
I've never used pulseaudio but with Firefox heading down that path, I
might have to switch.  My question is, if I switched to pulseaudio, can
I tell it that smplayer goes to TV and things like Firefox, Seamonkey,
gnome-player and such goes to the puter speakers?  From what I've read,
it sounds like that is pretty much what it does.  Right now, I'm using
ALSA, Kmix and friends.

Dale

:-)  :-)