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

[Jan Beich]

Andreas Drewke <andreas at drewke.net> writes:

> On 2019-06-25 20:29, Jan Beich wrote:
>
>> Andreas Drewke <andreas at drewke.net> writes:
>>
>>>> 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
>> Does paplay(1) use the correct sink? Maybe default sink doesn't persist
>> after pulseaudio daemon exits.
>>
>> $ fetch https://www2.iis.fraunhofer.de/AAC/ChID-BLITS-EBU-Narration.mp4
>> $ pkill pulseaudio
>> $ ffmpeg -i ChID-BLITS-EBU-Narration.mp4 -f wav - | paplay
><
> This indeed uses sink 0 in your test. If I do
>
> $ ffmpeg -i ChID-BLITS-EBU-Narration.mp4 -f wav - | paplay -d 9
>
> i hear the sound.
>
> Any hints how to fix this?
>
> My default.pa looks like:
>
>     $ cat .config/pulse/default.pa
>     .include /usr/local/etc/pulse/default.pa
>
>     load-module module-combine-sink sink_name=record-n-play slaves=oss_output.dsp6 sink_properties=device.description="Record-and-Play"
>
>     set-default-sink record-n-play

Why do you have this file? It sets default sink to 6 via an alias.