Re:PipeWire: A server for Linux audio and video streams
by Ericson2314 on Sunday September 12, 2021 @03:28PM
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To be a bit more on the nose than the other replies? Did you read past the headline at all?
This is perhaps one of the best examples of not just making a new standard, but making one implementation to rule them all and implementing all the competing standards.
> Patiently waiting for Linux to have one audio server that will offer compatibility to all previous ones
That's PipeWire!
> then slowly phasing them out until we have a consistent, possibly layered, low latency audio stack that scales from small single board computers to full sized audio workstations.
Does PipeWire have its own interface for applications yet? I haven't heard of it if so. That's good; let everything maranate for a while before trying to design the "one, true interface".
This is perhaps one of the best examples of not just making a new standard, but making one implementation to rule them all and implementing all the competing standards.
> Patiently waiting for Linux to have one audio server that will offer compatibility to all previous ones
That's PipeWire!
> then slowly phasing them out until we have a consistent, possibly layered, low latency audio stack that scales from small single board computers to full sized audio workstations.
Does PipeWire have its own interface for applications yet? I haven't heard of it if so. That's good; let everything maranate for a while before trying to design the "one, true interface".