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Originally posted by microcode View PostI wonder how long PulseAudio will be maintained, it's been replaced by default on my machines with PipeWire for a while now.
Sigh.
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Originally posted by kylew77 View Postsndio used in OpenBSD and FreeBSD is arguarably simpler than alsa or pulseaudio or pipewire. The simple fact that Linux has 3 sound systems in the same time period that the two biggest *BSDs has had one is telling. Admittedly I've never used pipewire yet but I know sndio is better than pulseaudio.
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Why would it be similar to that? PipeWire is (for nearly everyone) a fully compatible drop-in replacement for PulseAudio and JACK2.
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Originally posted by binarybanana View Postalsa is lower layer than PA/PW. It's an API that talks directly to the kernel (through a smallish userland library). They're not at all equal.
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Originally posted by royce View PostWhy so?
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Well, PipeWire has drop-in alsa libraries like it does with pulse and jack; probably the same would work with sndio (I don't know of any program that uses sndio without the userland library). PipeWire seems pretty similar to sndio, semantically.
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Originally posted by binarybanana View PostIf you mean why I won't use it it's because I don't like it.
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Originally posted by binarybanana View Post
If you mean why I won't use it it's because I don't like it. if you meae why it's been designed that way it's because it was written by RedHat.
Oh, that's interesting! Does that mean it won't respect configuration in .asoundrc, either? But even then, the kernel part is called ALSA, too. I worded that wrong in my previous post.
If they're using the system call interface directly, I'm not sure, but I think there are still ways to work with that.Last edited by microcode; 03 June 2022, 11:54 AM.
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