FireFox + Pulseaudio is always using sink 0 instead of default sink(9 in my case)

[Andreas Drewke]

Hi,

many thanx for answering.

 >Have you tried "pacmd set-default-sink 9" ? Alternatively, remove 
 >~/.config/pulse and let PA pick up default from hw.snd.default_unit.

Yes. Both. Also be aware that

 >about:support Shows 9 as default device. This is strange. Indeed 
setting >media.cubeb.output_device does not work too. I have now no idea 
how to fix this. However if FBSD 13 comes out I do a fresh install. But 
maybe you still have an idea. Many thanx and Best regards Andreas

On 2019-06-23 00:50, Jan Beich wrote:
> Andreas Drewke <andreas at drewke.net> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> since a few FF updates(do not remember correctly) FireFox with
>> PulseAudio always uses sink 0 instead of my default sink 9.
>> I am not sure if this is FreeBSD port related or a bug in FF code base.
>>
>> If you have any questions please ask.
>>
>> FYI: I can change sink to 9 with "pacmd move-sink-input X 9". This way
>> FF playes sound for a while with PA. However I do not know how to make
>> this persistant.
>> This could also be a bug in PA. I do not know.
> Have you tried "pacmd set-default-sink 9" ? Alternatively, remove
> ~/.config/pulse and let PA pick up default from hw.snd.default_unit.
>
> Firefox can also set PA sink via media.cubeb.output_device in about:config
> based on Name from Output Devices in about:support (Media section) but for
> some reason it doesn't work here.
>
> https://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/rev/be9f154873f1/dom/media/GraphDriver.cpp#577-590