On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 07:58:17 -0700
Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> The firefox developers have basically said, "The microphone on your
> computer won't work at all unless you use pulseaudio."[0] I've been
> trying to avoid pulseaudio for various reasons.[1] But since
> Thanksgiving is canceled this year, I'll have to see the family
> virtually, and why not do that with bigbluebutton.org ? This led me
> to a twisty maze of unwarranted assumptions and outright stupidity,
> which I will try to summarize below. TL;DR: pulseaudio hates analog
> audio and making analog audio work properly requires editing config
> files by hand.
For years, I've found pulseaudio to be a mass of invisible mutes. I use
Void Linux, which doesn't compile everything assuming systemd and
pulseaudio. My firefox 83.0 works just fine with no pulseaudio
installed. So does most of my other stuff.
There's a simple executable called apulse that gives pulseaudio
facilities to its argument. For instance:
apulse firefox
The preceding runs firefox with pulseaudio underneath, but that
pulseaudio is invisible to everything else on your system.
By the way, my finding is I can use Jitsi on Chromium to video
conference with families. From what I understand, Widnows people use MS
Edge browser to join the discussion.
SteveT
Steve Litt
Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times
http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive
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