No Sound In Firefox On FreeBSD

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The Problem

I was trying to watch videos through the Librewolf web browser on a FreeBSD machine, however there was no audio, this was strange since I could get audio to work using yt-dlp + mpv to watch internet videos through sites like YouTube and Invidious. This issue also happened on Firefox.

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The Solution

We want to tell Firefox to use a certain backend for audio that FreeBSD supports. Personally I have only tried using oss and sndio as backends, of the two I personally use sndio. If you want to use oss or sndio it must be installed from either ports or pkg

pkg install oss

or

pkg install sndio

go to about:config in the Firefox search bar, then type media.cubeb.backend and set it to string with the string being the backend you want to use i.e oss or sndio, if you set it to sndio you must start the sndio daemon (sndiod), oss seems to just work as long as it's installed.

sndiod can be configure to run at boot time by adding

sndiod_enable="YES"

to your /etc/rc.conf

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