PipeWire 0.3.80 Released With Vulkan DMA-BUF Support, Tag Param

[phoronix]

Phoronix: PipeWire 0.3.80 Released With Vulkan DMA-BUF Support, Tag Param

Red Hat multimedia expert Wim Taymans has released PipeWire 0.3.80 as the newest version of this open-source solution for efficiently handling video and audio streams on the Linux desktop...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/PipeWire-0.3.80

[darkbasic]

PipeWire's echo cancelling code was also ported over to the WebRTC audio processing code

That's not true: it was already using webrtc-audio-processing: they simply moved from the 0.3 branch to the 1.x one.

[Quackdoc]

I didnt even know pipewire had echo canceling, Will have to figure this out since I would quite like to use it

[Chewi]

Sometimes I forget that PipeWire also does video, even though that was its initial focus.

[Quackdoc]

Sometimes I forget that PipeWire also does video, even though that was its initial focus.

Pipewire is cool and all, but not having support for it via ffmpeg for cli is kind of really painful. unless you write a full program around it, it's not great for using even gstreamer can use it more or less directly, but some things like screen recording still need a script to set it up. Really missing being able to do desktop recording right from ffmpeg.

[discordian]

pipewire still being at a zero-point release is really funny.
ever since i started using it, pretty much all audio/headphone/bt related problems went away.

[avis]

pipewire still being at a zero-point release is really funny.
ever since i started using it, pretty much all audio/headphone/bt related problems went away.

Wayland developers could take a lesson or two from PipeWire developers. Ah, no, never going to happen.

The vast majority of people haven't even noticed that PA has been replaced with PW. That's how seamless it was.

[pharmasolin]

pipewire still being at a zero-point release is really funny.
ever since i started using it, pretty much all audio/headphone/bt related problems went away.

2 releases ago there was a bug with my sony wh-1000xm5, if I will enable mic on a headphones I wouldn't be able to switch to a high fidelity sound back. If I will open discord and wanted to use mic on my laptop it still dropped to low quality sound. It was quickly fixes tho.

Also for those who are on ubuntu you can use latest pipewire using this ppa https://pipewire-debian.github.io/pipewire-debian/

[Myownfriend]

Wayland developers could take a lesson or two from PipeWire developers. Ah, no, never going to happen.

The vast majority of people haven't even noticed that PA has been replaced with PW. That's how seamless it was.

Birdie, stop making ever topic about the same things. Seriously. Stfu

[SilverBird775]

Wayland developers could take a lesson or two from PipeWire developers. Ah, no, never going to happen.

The vast majority of people haven't even noticed that PA has been replaced with PW. That's how seamless it was.

Too much optimistic, are you? So I had my chance to compare PA vs PW.
PW by design is very, very sensitive to the resource blocking. It was never a case for PA. But PW wants everything ASAP. Requires the layers of trickery to feed its data pre-backed ASAP. Very demanding! It cracks and stalls because of whatever activity happen. It deliberately refused to use the existed ALSA interrupts because it simulate its own by POLLing the devices in a hope for variable interrupt emulation. USB devices does not like it. ALSA does not really like it too.

I had to change my main player and had to rewrite the PW native plugin for it by addition of trickery and tuning. And only then it play nice. Do PW works? Yeah... kind of. Seamless? Absolutely not.