Fedora 34 Might Try To Use PipeWire By Default To Replace PulseAudio/JACK

[angrypie]

"next big thing" of functionally equivalent implementation with no user visible change? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jxAsUR0Gss

Users don't see "security" but they still need it. Most new efforts on replacing old stuff have been focusing on that.

[MadeUpName]

I was thinking of taking it for a burn. I am running the KDE spin of FC33. There are a couple of packages that enable integration between Pulse and KDE. There are no equivalent packages for pipewire. Any one know if pipewire works with KDE or is this a Gnome only thing?

[pal666]

Is PipeWire actually ready to supplant PulseAudio already?

already or in f34?

[pal666]

For musicians, audiophiles, home theatre fans, gamers, etc... On a day to day basis, what does it bring over Pulseaudio?

for starters, musicians use jack instead of pulseaudio, it brings them jack over pulseaudio

[pal666]

but IMO Pulseaudio is Dead an has been dead for years. good ole Lennart dug it out of the grave instead of making something new

imo you are raving imbecile, lennart has nothing to do with pipewire and pulseaudio is the default linux sound server

[pal666]

As of now I've tried switching to pipewire twice during the last two months. The first time it only detected 2 of 5 audio devices, none of which I actually use. The second time it Just crashed immediately and didn't work at all.

With that in mind it definitely seems premature.

well, your start was good but then you suddenly switched your brain off. it was definitely premature during the last two months, but f34 will be released much later than during the last two months

[pal666]

In any case it looked to me as a simple drop-in replacement. Why Wayland guys could not do the same?

because they change protocol, pipewire changes implementation

[pal666]

Will this lead to apps breaking and not being backwards compatible? Like media players, web browsers, games, etc stop working?

Does PipeWire provide low latency audio suitable for audio workstations and music production?

your questions are answered in readme, will you read it?

[pal666]

Just NO at this point. PipeWire is still in heavy development.

as is f34

The proposal even states that PipeWire doesn't support all the features of Pulseaudio yet, so migrating to PipeWire would *regress* functionality. This is simply not acceptable.

if it will regress your functionality, you could report it and install pulseaudio instead. it's obvious f34 will not break sound for everyone like ubuntu.

[pal666]

How could Pipewire replace ALSA? Wouldn't it need to access the hardware through ALSA, like Pulseaudio?

there's user-level alsa library. it will be routed to pw which will then route sound to kernel alsa