PipeWire To Work On Vulkan Converters & Processing Filters

[phoronix]

Phoronix: PipeWire To Work On Vulkan Converters & Processing Filters

With PipeWire 1.0 having been released toward the end of last year and is now commonly used by Linux distributions out-of-the-box for managing audio/video streams, you may be wondering about the future plans for this open-source software from Red Hat. Well, Wim Taymans was at FOSDEM this weekend in Brussels and shared some of the plans ahead for PipeWire...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/PipeWire-Plans-2024

[Joe2021]

Btw, is there a pipewire-native replacement for pavucontrol (which interacts via pulseaudio)?

[spicfoo]

Btw, is there a pipewire-native replacement for pavucontrol (which interacts via pulseaudio)?

You really don't need one. Pavucontrol works fine with PipeWire. Red Hat upstream developers don't appear to be pushing for a native protocol and all the new work seem focused on the video side.

[Joe2021]

You really don't need one. Pavucontrol works fine with PipeWire. Red Hat upstream developers don't appear to be pushing for a native protocol and all the new work seem focused on the video side.

While I agree that pavucontrol is quite useful for common tasks, a pulseaudio interface can only view and access a subset of pipewires capabilities.

[Quackdoc]

I hope that when pipewire eventually gets camera controlls it isn't limited to the portals API, Support is good, but forcing it is bad IMO.

[timofonic]

DLNA?

What about stuff such as Miracast, Chromecast, WiDi, AirPlay, DIAL, etc? I know there's Gnome code for some of that, but a more platform agnostic solution would be better.

[timofonic]

While I agree that pavucontrol is quite useful for common tasks, a pulseaudio interface can only view and access a subset of pipewires capabilities.

I agree! I would love a pavucontrol for pipewire merged with easyeffects too.

[Sethox]

DLNA?
What about stuff such as Miracast, Chromecast, WiDi, AirPlay, DIAL, etc? I know there's Gnome code for some of that, but a more platform agnostic solution would be better.

The problem I have with DLNA specifically, is it's security issues it provides (it's good that Pipewire will allow it to happen as a choice). I suppose all those other stuff will be added in due time. I believe the idea is that "Smart TVs" will use Pipewire (when features are complete), which give credence to add all of those and maybe a platform agnostic solution. Again big assumptions here !

[rmfx]

All we need is PW to no get bloated over time trying to do it all too much.
Softwares should also move to a native pipewire output instead of relying on jack and pulseaudio emulation from now on.

[caligula]

DLNA?

What about stuff such as Miracast, Chromecast, WiDi, AirPlay, DIAL, etc? I know there's Gnome code for some of that, but a more platform agnostic solution would be better.

Aren't there multiple projects that implement those? Won't they work as Pipewire sinks?