ke, 2021-05-26 kello 10:15 +0200, Frank Elsner via users kirjoitti: > Hi, > > I'm a podcaster and therefore I need a functional audio environment. > Currently I use pulseaudio on a Fedora 33 system. Works for me. > > Will this also work if I upgrade to Fedora 34? > > Is there an equivalent to pavucontrol? I need it to adjust > the level of my external audio interface? > > I'm heavy interested in any experience - especially pitfalls - before > I start the upgrade. > > > Thanks in advance, > Frank > I'm sure my use of audio is nowhere near as complex as that of someone who needs to record a podcast, but I thought I'd throw my two cents in anyway. After moving from F33 to F34, I've found my own audio experience to be either the same as before in some parts and improved in some other parts. I use two different laptops, one with bluetooth headphones and the other with a USB headset. I also use a desktop computer with headphones connected through a 3.5 mm plug. The same: Listening to music, watching videos, and other basic stuff like that works exactly the same as before. Using Zoom for work and school works fine, as it did before. I've found no issues when recording game footage or screencasts with OBS, with or without a microphone. Over bluetooth, there is still a slight delay before audio output begins after it has been paused for a time, but this is probably to do with some kind of power saving feature somewhere rather than pipewire. Just like before, I sometimes still get a crackling noise in Steam games, and to fix that I need to add PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=100 %command% to the launch options for those games to get the crackling to go away. The improved: I don't know if this is to do with pipewire, the kernel, or whatever manages bluetooth, but I've found that my bluetooth headphones work better than before. Before, they would sometimes either not play audio at all, or play it very choppily, if the headphones were connected to more than one device simultaneously; this is no longer an issue. As an aside, even just connecting the headphones over bluetooth seems to work much better now. I've noticed a clear improvement in the audio experience on my desktop computer. Previously, sometimes the normal audio output would not become active at all. It's not even that it wouldn't be selected as the default, but it just wouldn't even show up as an option in the audio settings. I would also sometimes get this weird problem where the output was selected correctly, and the meter was moving when audio was being output, but nothing could be heard through the headphones. I've experienced none of this so far with F34. The different: I have noticed something that may have broken in the switch from pulseaudio to pipewire: when I went to share my screen in Zoom the other week, I noticed there was a bit of text in the bottom of the window that said something about pulseaudio version this-or-that being required for sharing desktop audio over Zoom. I can't remember ever seeing this before, but in any case I've never had a need to share desktop audio over Zoom, so I haven't taken the time to test whether that works or not. -- Terveisin / Regards, Matti Pulkkinen _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
