Firefox and sndio

[abi]

On 29.01.2017 05:10, Jan Beich wrote:
> Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2 at milibyte.co.uk> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 14:58:51 +0000
>> Grzegorz Junka <list1 at gjunka.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 28/01/2017 11:37, Tobias Kortkamp wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Jan 28, 2017, at 11:23, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
>>>>> Audio in Firefox seems to be working fine when ALSA is enabled. But when
>>>>> ALSA is disabled and only SNDIO is enabled there is no sound. In either
>>>>> case I had PULSEAUDIO disabled. What's the expected configuration for
>>>>> this to work?
>>>> Is sndiod running?  If not:
>>>>
>>>>       sysrc sndiod_enable=YES
>>>>       service sndiod start
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks Tobias. That helped. Out of interest. Is there any reason why I
>>> should prefer either SNDIO, PUlSEAUDIO or ALSA?
>>
>> This currently creates a problem for those of us using Firefox from
>> packages because the default build has SNDIO turned off.
>>
>> $ pkg info firefox
> [...]
>>          ALSA           : on
> [...]
>>          PULSEAUDIO     : on
> [...]
>>          SNDIO          : off
>
> Only backends that support lazy bindings are enabled by default i.e.,
> try PULSEAUDIO, if N/A fallback to ALSA, if N/A fallback to native OSS.
> SNDIO has lower priority than ALSA in libcubeb but higher in WebRTC and
> cannot fallback to native OSS as well. SNDIO currently doesn't work
> inside jail and neither sndiod nor Firefox support Capsicum sandboxing,
> so falling back to ALSA (or OSS) is important.

Why OSS is not added to port options? OSS is that, probably, all of us have.