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Re:PipeWire 0.3.62 by kobalsky on Friday December 09, 2022 @10:09AM (#33922008)
pulseaudio exists because it's user friendly.

JACK exists becase some people need low latency and dynamic control over non-trivial audio routing.

pipewire attempts to bring the best of both worlds and make it container friendly for security purposes.

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Re:PipeWire 0.3.62 by codedokode on Friday December 09, 2022 @10:18AM (#33922150)
> JACK exists becase some people need low latency

Wouldn't latency be lower if the application would access audio card directly without any daemons in between?

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Re:PipeWire 0.3.62 by seba_dos1 on Friday December 09, 2022 @10:20AM (#33922177)
Then you would only be able to do fraction of functionality JACK provides you. May be enough for the most simple use-cases, but people who reach for JACK aren't usually after those.
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Re:PipeWire 0.3.62 by wtay on Friday December 09, 2022 @01:25PM (#33924702)
The answer is, surpisingly maybe, no. JACK (and PipeWire) manage to add features without adding any latency to what ALSA can provide. Will it consume more CPU? yes, it does...
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