
Red Hat's Christian Schaller has shared a status update on PipeWire after discussing the latest state with PipeWire creator Wim Taymans.
PipeWire is quickly working to fill its primary mission of video handling, PipeWire is beginning to work with GNOME's Cheese program, they are moving along with their goal of addressing JACK / professional audio needs, ALSA emulation remains in place, and good Bluetooth support also remains a focus.
Schaller summarized the PipeWire state as:
So you might read this and think, hey if all this work we are almost done right? Well unfortunately no, the components mentioned here are good enough for us to verify the design and features, but they still need a lot of maturing and testing before they will be in a state where we can consider switching Fedora Workstation over to using them by default. So there are many warts that needs to be cleaned up still, but a lot of things have become a lot more tangible now than when we last spoke about PipeWire in September. The video handling we hope to enable in Fedora Workstation 28 as mentioned, while the other pieces we will work towards enabling in later releases as the components mature.
The current state of PipeWire is covered in full via Christian's blog.
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