Request for Adding Pulseaudio in MPV

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 12/19/20 6:44 AM, Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote:
> Usama Hashimi <usama.cit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> laptops. Therefore, I would like to request you that if you can add
>> Pulseaudio support in the next release/update of MPV, then it will be
>> very helpful for us. It will also be very helpful in the longrun to
> 
> Welcome to FreeBSD!
> 
> The problem with your request is that people who don't want pulseaudio
> on their systems end up getting it (and any dependencies) anyway.
> 
> Personally, I won't let it near any of my systems (but I use ports rather
> than pkg, so that's moot)
> 
> However, there is a solution, and you don't need to make your own
> repository - simply make a package for mpv:
> 
> cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mpv
> make package
> 
> Set the options how you want them, and it will build a package file
> that you can add on every machine using "pkg add"
> 
> (see "man ports" for more information)
> 
> Does this help?
> 
> Cheers, Jamie

Hi,

Pulseaudio under FreeBSD doesn't work too well with pluggable USB audio 
devices.

We have patches for pulseaudio which try to improve things, but so far 
upstream hasn't accepted them:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/277

--HPS