Mozilla to build WebRTC chat into Firefox [LWN.net]

Mozilla to build WebRTC chat into Firefox

Posted May 31, 2014 5:40 UTC (Sat) by thedevil (guest, #32913)
Parent article: Mozilla to build WebRTC chat into Firefox

I wonder what sound interface it will use on Linux. Probably pulse, so
I am not holding my breath.

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Mozilla to build WebRTC chat into Firefox

Posted May 31, 2014 6:07 UTC (Sat) by luya (subscriber, #50741) [Link] (2 responses)

What's wrong with Pulseaudio?

Mozilla to build WebRTC chat into Firefox

Posted May 31, 2014 22:33 UTC (Sat) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] (1 responses)

That I do not run it, and have no need to. I am do not need per-application volume or network connectivity; and softmixing, ALSA can do.

Mozilla to build WebRTC chat into Firefox

Posted Jun 2, 2014 23:39 UTC (Mon) by tterribe (guest, #66972) [Link]

PulseAudio is detected at runtime. I don't have it running on any of my machines, either, and I work on WebRTC. You need the headers and libraries to build Firefox, but not as an end-user.

Mozilla to build WebRTC chat into Firefox

Posted May 31, 2014 9:09 UTC (Sat) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]

Firefox has been doing audio/video capture on Linux for a while now, and it generally works very well for me.

Mozilla to build WebRTC chat into Firefox

Posted May 31, 2014 22:57 UTC (Sat) by riccieri (guest, #94794) [Link]

AFAIK Firefox uses gstreamer for multimedia on Linux, so it should work (at least in theory) with any backend that gstreamer supports.

Mozilla to build WebRTC chat into Firefox

Posted Jun 1, 2014 0:49 UTC (Sun) by eean (subscriber, #50420) [Link]

I was confused as well; WebRTC is already implemented in Firefox. So it will surely use whatever it does currently on Linux.

This is announcing a new user-facing feature for web browsers to communicate with each other directly. Which they can do already with WebRTC... so maybe this is like how Netscape was integrated with AIM? I hope I'm mistaken.

Mozilla to build WebRTC chat into Firefox

Posted Jun 4, 2014 5:40 UTC (Wed) by krakensden (guest, #72039) [Link]

Given that pulse is an alsa subset, there shouldn't be a problem with plain alsa. Except for the usual nonsense