audio/pulseaudio 17.0_6 FreeBSD

Sound server for UNIX

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-10-21
Commit: ab117fd23c
License: LGPL21
Categories: audio
Package size: 1431.4 KiB, 6894.9 KiB installed

Description

PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and Win32 systems. A sound server is basically a proxy for your sound applications. It allows you to do advanced operations on your sound data as it passes between your application and your hardware. Things like transferring the audio to a different machine, changing the sample format or channel count and mixing several sounds into one are easily achieved using a sound server.

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

FreeBSD

audio/pulseaudio

17.0_6

OpenBSD

audio/pulseaudio

17.0p4

NetBSD

audio/pulseaudio

17.0nb7

MidnightBSD

audio/pulseaudio

17.0_5

Install

Binary package:

pkg install pulseaudio

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/audio/pulseaudio/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	pulseaudio>0:audio/pulseaudio
LIB_DEPENDS=	libpulse-mainloop-glib.so:audio/pulseaudio

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository

aarch64

amd64

armv6

armv7

i386

FreeBSD:14:latest

17.0_5

17.0_3

17.0_5

FreeBSD:14:quarterly

17.0_5

n/a

17.0_3

17.0_5

FreeBSD:15:latest

17.0_5

n/a

17.0_3

FreeBSD:15:quarterly

17.0_5

n/a

FreeBSD:16:latest

17.0_5

n/a

FreeBSD:16:quarterly

n/a

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Build 1

p5-XML-Parser>=0 : textproc/p5-XML-Parser

Library 6

libsndfile.so : audio/libsndfile
libfftw3.so : math/fftw3
libfftw3f.so : math/fftw3-float
libdbus-1.so : devel/dbus
libltdl.so : devel/libltdl
libck-connector.so : sysutils/consolekit2

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 69

Run dependencies 60

Required by 848

The first 100 are listed.

Configuration

Options name: audio_pulseaudio

Option

Default

Description

ALSA

off

ALSA audio architecture support

AVAHI

Zeroconf support via Avahi

GDBM

off

GNU database manager support

GSETTINGS

off

GSettings configuration backend support

JACK

off

JACK audio server support

SIMD

Use CPU-specific optimizations

SIMPLE

Simple database support

SOXR

SoX resampler support via libsoxr

SPEEX

Speex resampler and AEC support

TDB

off

Trivial database support

TEST

off

Build and/or run tests

WEBRTC_AEC

WebRTC-based echo canceller

X11

X11 (graphics) support

USES: compiler:c11 cpe gettext-tools gmake gnome iconv localbase:ldflags meson pkgconfig python:run shebangfix ssl tar:xz
Service scripts: none

Message after installing

Pulseaudio tries to determine default values for FreeBSD OSS driver at first
start, based on /dev/sndstat output. The hw.snd.default_unit sysctl may affect
these values, but restart of the Pulseaudio might be needed to rescan it again,
e.g. `pacmd exit`.

Pulseaudio has separate input and output configure lines. You can change them
with using following commands:

To change the default sink (output):
# pacmd set-default-sink 3
To change the default source (input):
# pacmd set-default-source 3

This can also be set in /usr/local/etc/pulse/default.pa

Replace the number '3' with the new default you want to set.

The audio/freedesktop-sound-theme is needed if the default sound files
are uncommented in the /usr/local/etc/pulse/default.pa file.

Files

Manual pages 16

default.pa(5)
pacat(1)
pacmd(1)
pactl(1)
padsp(1)
pamon(1)
paplay(1)
parec(1)
parecord(1)
pasuspender(1)
pax11publish(1)
pulse-cli-syntax(5)
pulse-client.conf(5)
pulse-daemon.conf(5)
pulseaudio(1)
start-pulseaudio-x11(1)

pkg-plist 312

bin/pa-info
bin/pacat
bin/pacmd
bin/pactl
bin/padsp
bin/pamon
bin/paplay
bin/parec
bin/parecord
bin/pasuspender
bin/pax11publish
bin/pulseaudio
bin/qpaeq
bin/start-pulseaudio-x11
share/dbus-1/system.d/pulseaudio-system.conf
@sample etc/pulse/client.conf.sample
@sample etc/pulse/daemon.conf.sample
@sample etc/pulse/default.pa.sample
@sample etc/pulse/system.pa.sample
etc/xdg/Xwayland-session.d/00-pulseaudio-x11
etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop
include/pulse/cdecl.h
include/pulse/channelmap.h
include/pulse/context.h
include/pulse/def.h
include/pulse/direction.h
include/pulse/error.h
include/pulse/ext-device-manager.h
include/pulse/ext-device-restore.h
include/pulse/ext-stream-restore.h
include/pulse/format.h
include/pulse/gccmacro.h
include/pulse/glib-mainloop.h
include/pulse/introspect.h
include/pulse/mainloop-api.h
include/pulse/mainloop-signal.h
include/pulse/mainloop.h
include/pulse/operation.h
include/pulse/proplist.h
include/pulse/pulseaudio.h
include/pulse/rtclock.h
include/pulse/sample.h
include/pulse/scache.h
include/pulse/simple.h
include/pulse/stream.h
include/pulse/subscribe.h
include/pulse/thread-mainloop.h
include/pulse/timeval.h
include/pulse/utf8.h
include/pulse/util.h
include/pulse/version.h
include/pulse/volume.h
include/pulse/xmalloc.h
lib/cmake/PulseAudio/PulseAudioConfig.cmake
lib/cmake/PulseAudio/PulseAudioConfigVersion.cmake
lib/libpulse-mainloop-glib.so
lib/libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0
lib/libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0.0.6
lib/libpulse-simple.so
lib/libpulse-simple.so.0
lib/libpulse-simple.so.0.1.1
lib/libpulse.so
lib/libpulse.so.0
lib/libpulse.so.0.24.3
lib/pulseaudio/modules/libavahi-wrap.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/libalsa-util.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/libcli.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/liboss-util.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/libprotocol-cli.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/libprotocol-http.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/libprotocol-native.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/libprotocol-simple.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/libraop.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/librtp.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/libwebrtc-util.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-allow-passthrough.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-alsa-card.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-alsa-sink.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-alsa-source.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-always-sink.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-always-source.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-augment-properties.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-card-restore.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-cli-protocol-tcp.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-cli-protocol-unix.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-cli.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-combine-sink.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-combine.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-console-kit.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-dbus-protocol.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-default-device-restore.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-detect.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-devd-detect.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-device-manager.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-device-restore.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-echo-cancel.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-equalizer-sink.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-filter-apply.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-filter-heuristics.so
lib/pulseaudio/modules/module-gsettings.so

The first 100 are listed.

distinfo 1

File

Size

SHA256

pulseaudio-17.0.tar.xz

1.566556e+06

053794d6671a3e397d849e478a80b82a63cb9d8ca296bd35b73317bb5ceb87b5

Master sites 1

https://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/

Commit history 2

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-10-21

ab117fd23c

Max Brazhnikov

audio/pulseaudio: Improve OSS support

- Set vol or pcm for oss module, but not both. Setting both channels results in drastic volume change. - Set / read monitor channel. Reviewed by: arrowd, christos Differential Revision: D60197

2026-09-02 74b734e5a0 Gleb Popov audio/pulseaudio: Remove ancient and irrelevant patch