FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE for Raspberry Pi 4B, 400 Does HDMI Audio (VCHIQ ) operate?

From: Fred L. Finster <fred_at_thegalacticzoo.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2024 05:46:36 UTC
IS HDMI Audio supported yet from an out of the box release for FreeBSD 
14.0-RELEASE or 14.1-RELEASE ??   Playing Videos with Sound is lively 
and delightful on a Raspberry Pi.  So who controls what works and what 
gets patched into a  FreeBSD release for a specific SBC boaard and model?

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36431
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37878
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37879

My Bugzilla Review collection of the above posts
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43399

I ask if someone is testing out Release 14.1  Does audio come out the 
VCHIQ HDMI Audio on the television speakers for a Raspberry Pi 4B or 400 
keyboard model?  using the BCM2711 SOC.   The Raspberry Pi 5, BCM2712 
might have different internal hardware setup that does not use the VCHIQ 
hardware.

https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2024/01/hdmi-audio-sound-patches-into-ghostbsd.html

Here is my blog post showing how to incorporate the patch files to the 
FreeBDS Kernel.  I tested this on FreeBSD kernel source code and that 
did work for me.   I also test these same patch files on the GhostBSD 
kernel source code and that also did work to play Audio out the HDMI 
Input Television Speakers so not necessary to use the analog 3.5MM plug 
for audio headphones or to use USB Headphones to play sound with youtube 
videos playing with the Firefox browser or the Falkon browser.

Would like to see some patch file for HDMI Audio to work on FreeBSD 
14.x-RELEASE Raspberry Pi RPI image file.   What do you think?  Has 
anybody else tested playing a video through a web browser?

What about mpg123
pkg install mpg123
mpg123  testfile.mp3


What is the method you use to play sound on the Raspberry Pi hardware SBC?


Here is my test of Audio MP3 files
https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com/2024/03/sound-how-do-i-hear-thee-not-let-me.html#more


A sample MP3 test file
https://freetestdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Free_Test_Data_100KB_MP3.mp3 



Did I forget some piece of data to list here?  Let me know.  Thank you.

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