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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by nikanj on Monday February 08, 2021 @02:33AM (#26061750)
Alas, stable API doesn't mean the software itself is actually stable and bug-free
Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by da_big_ghey on Monday February 08, 2021 @07:20AM (#26063520)
Definitely fair; I still encounter bugs. But that was true of pulseaudio as well, and it is true of pipewire to a significantly lesser extent, especially around bluetooth profile switching, interoperability with jackd, etc.
Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by ahartmetz on Monday February 08, 2021 @08:49AM (#26064359)
The Pipewire author is the guy who basically made GStreamer good by overhauling its core logic back in the day - he really knows what he is doing. I fully expect that Pipewire will make audio on Linux really good (latency of Jack, consumer audio feature set of Pulseaudio, reliability of GStreamer) when it's done.