Chromium no sound

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drhowarddrfine

I just upgraded recently to www/chromium version 54.0.2840.100 but I was doing something else right after that. Right now I don't have sound when watching YouTube or other audio through that browser but I do have sound with Firefox.

Has anyone using that version have the same issue or just me?
 
Hi drhowarddrfine,

You need to enable ALSA or PULSEAUDIO to build chromium with audio support.

Code: 
% make -C /usr/ports/www/chromium showconfig
===> The following configuration options are available for chromium-54.0.2840.100:
     ALSA=on: ALSA audio architecture support
     CODECS=on: Compile and enable patented codecs like H.264
     DEBUG=off: Build with debugging support
     DRIVER=on: Install chromedriver
     GCONF=on: GConf configuration backend support
     KERBEROS=on: Kerberos support
     PULSEAUDIO=off: PulseAudio sound server support
     TEST=off: Build and/or run tests
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
 
Yeah I noticed that. I can only presume that that is a new change cause I've been running chromium for years without having to do that. Making the change fixed the problem.
 
drhowarddrfine said:
Yeah I noticed that. I can only presume that that is a new change cause I've been running chromium for years without having to do that. Making the change fixed the problem.
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Yes, we'll re-add again ALSA and PULSEAUDIO to OPTIONS_DEFAULT

Code: 
% make -C /usr/ports/www/chromium -V OPTIONS_DEFAULT
 CODECS GCONF KERBEROS

We also consider adding support for audio/sndio as OpenBSD has done.
 
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