Fedora Workstation 31 Should Be Another Fantastic Release For Desktop Linux

[pal666]

And we call also substitute the word Pipewire in that sentence with OSS, Alsa, Jack, PulseAudio et al.

no, you can't, since none of them supports video. and even for audio they are lacking features

[tildearrow]

no, you can't, since none of them supports video. and even for audio they are lacking features

PipeWire also lacks some features for audio.

[finalzone]

PipeWire also lacks some features for audio.

Those features will come in time as the current goal of PipeWire is to start on a solid foundation and gradually carry over useful functions for audio from both PulseAudio and Jack while improving them.

[pal666]

PipeWire also lacks some features for audio.

pipewire is work in progress

[Oddsocks]

it's video. and it's not exactly new

Sorry, my mistake. When the website talks about it handling audio (yes and video), I assumed it handled audio. But audio just means video, Got ya.

[Oddsocks]

no, you can't, since none of them supports video. and even for audio they are lacking features

Methinks you missed the point. When pipewire gets replaced with PulseFlapsNG, the same sentence will also work.

[pal666]

When the website talks about it handling audio (yes and video), I assumed it handled audio

that's ok. what's not ok is to assume it doesn't have to handle video

But audio just means video, Got ya.

every video contains audio, doesn't it? they are starting with audio part because audio servers already exist and they have to provide adequate replacement

[pal666]

Methinks you missed the point. When pipewire gets replaced with PulseFlapsNG, the same sentence will also work.

your point is that nobody uses unix edition 1 anymore? what a shame...

[Oddsocks]

your point is that nobody uses unix edition 1 anymore? what a shame...

Actually no. My point is that you bought a 3 bedroom house. Now you need a 4 bedroom house. Lets knock the house down and start again. Progress doesn't have to mean starting from scratch *every* time. And yes that's often the nature of the beast in the OSS world.

[Oddsocks]

that's ok. what's not ok is to assume it doesn't have to handle video
every video contains audio, doesn't it? they are starting with audio part because audio servers already exist and they have to provide adequate replacement

Yes, but I don't remember bitching about yet another video standard. Although..........

Also no, not every video contains audio, albeit most do.

https://xkcd.com/927/