On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 23:41:04 +1000 Philip Rhoades via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Some told me they thought that browsers talked directly to the > soundcard? Not for a long, long time. If you have pulseaudio or pipewire installed, and are using them as default, then no matter what the browser thinks, it is talking to pulseaudio or pipewire. > With upgrading from F33 (X/XFCE4/ALSA) to F34 (Wayland/Sway/PipeWire) > I have been thrashing the system a bit to see how it goes and found > trying to serially record stuff online from three different browsers > and also recording stuff with a number of apps causes me to lose > access to the default mic for ALL inputs . . This sounds like a bug. You could look at the list here, https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues to see if it is listed. Otherwise, you could open a new issue. > > Since I don't have any trouble PLAYING from as many sources as I want > to but ONLY recording, I have turned OFF access to the mic for all > the browsers (C, FF, B) and will try to only use stand-alone apps > that need the mic (using default) ie audacity, jisti, obs, zoom, > arecord etc - I will see how that approach goes for a while. Because play is working everywhere, record should work everywhere. So, a bug or possibly a mic misconfiguration error. > Also, because of problems in the early days with PulseAudio, I got > into the habit of routinely uninstalling it and just using ALSA plus > my .asoundrc file - now I thought PW was going to completely replace > PA but I see there are still a number of RPMs installed: I think it is hybrid, with pipewire replacing more the higher logic, and still using the basic plumbing of pulseaudio. > Any info on how this stuff is supposed to work / hang together would > be appreciated! - a diagram somewhere would be great! I'm not aware of anything like that. Pipewire is still under very active development, so that is probably taking priority until the fires are out. At the bottom of this page, there are some links to more information about pipewire. Might or might not help you. _______________________________________________ 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
