Bug 245251
| Summary: | www/chromium: Doesn't allow to choose a microphone | ||
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| Product: | Ports & Packages | Reporter: | Yuri Victorovich <yuri> |
| Component: | Individual Port(s) | Assignee: | freebsd-chromium (Nobody) <chromium> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | CC: | emaste, freebsd, gadskypapa, grahamperrin, lbartoletti, yuri |
| Priority: | --- | Flags: | bugzilla:
maintainer-feedback?
(chromium) |
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
Firefox's behavior is much better. It offers the user to grant access to audio/video devices per-website when such access is required, with different audio/video devices being able to be chosen for individual websites. Chromium uses ALSA by default, so you *should* see all audio devices configured in asound.conf. (In reply to Matthias Wolf from comment #2) My etc/asound.conf.sample and etc/asound.conf are identical. > Chromium uses ALSA by default <...> Does it support any other ways to access audio? The default asound.conf only uses the default OSS device as far as I know. The other options would be sndio and pulseaudio as options in the port (disabled by default). Unfortunately, we don't have a native OSS backend (yet). (In reply to Yuri Victorovich from comment #0) Look here, maybe the way is OK for you https://wiki.freebsd.org/Sound Maybe the way should be documented in a more predictable/proper for chromium users place sorry, the proper url is https://wiki.freebsd.org/Sound#For_Firefox.2FChrome_video_conferencing:_sndio_integration_for_userspace_programs sndio option is now the default audio backend in chrome. The new and upcoming version of sndio recognizes AUDIOPLAYDEVICE and AUDIORECDEVICE environment variables. Calling chrome like this: > AUDIOPLAYDEVICE=rsnd/2 AUDIORECDEVICE=rsnd/6 chrome allows to choose both speaker and microphone OSS devices: /dev/audio2 and /dev/audio6. Again, this is assuming that the SNDIO=ON (default) and audio/sndio is patched with the latest patches from https://github.com/ratchov/sndio This solves the problem of selectability of audio devices, not in the runtime, but at least through environment variables. |
I have several microphones: > $ /usr/local/bin/openal-info > Available playback devices: > OSS Default > pcm0:play:dsp0 > pcm1:play:dsp1 > pcm2:play:dsp2 > pcm3:play:dsp3 > pcm4:play:dsp4 > pcm5:play:dsp5 > Available capture devices: > OSS Default > pcm2:record:dsp2 > pcm3:record:dsp3 > pcm6:record:dsp6 But chrome://settings/content/microphone simply offers a choice of "Open Sound System", and doesn't allow to choose a microphone. This is a severe usability issue.