PipeWire Under the Hood

Re:PipeWire Under the Hood by m45t3r on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @12:09PM (#27606141)

I recently switched to PipeWire on NixOS 21.05 release. It was mostly seamless (except for some issues of not running it at realtime with rtkit, something that PulseAudio does automatically) and having access to new codecs like mSBC and SBC-XQ for Bluetooth is great.

It is very early though and lacks documentation like the article posted above says. Wouldn't recommend for everyone yet, but sure it is nice to see almost no issues in a project that is still on its early stages.

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Re:PipeWire Under the Hood by daper on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @05:48PM (#27610905)

Same here. mSBC coded that started working for me around Fedora 33/pipewire 3.2x is a night/day change for me. I can use my Jabra bluetooth headset with high quality audio instead of really crappy sound. I think neither Windows nor OSX can do that with regular bluetooth adapter built in laptops.

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Re:PipeWire Under the Hood by krastanov on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @12:57PM (#27606767)

Does that mean you do not have pulseaudio running? I am still confused whether all my apps would just run fine if I install pipewire and remove pulseaudio, or whether pipewire currently takes over only some of the responsibilities of pulseaudio.

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Re:PipeWire Under the Hood by m45t3r on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @03:58PM (#27609355)

Zero PulseAudio, just the `pipewire-pulse` daemon (that replaces it). Better yet, all PulseAudio clients that I tried just works (including things like `pavucontrol`).

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Re:PipeWire Under the Hood by wtay on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @02:05PM (#27607814)

Yes, you need to uninstall the PulseAudio server, it is not used anymore. PipeWire implements its own pulseaudio server that talks to PipeWire.

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