Re: Fedora 34 Change: Route all Audio to PipeWire (System-Wide Change)

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Hi,

This is bad.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 3:27 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 9:19 AM Joël Krähemann <jkraehemann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > For short, NO! I want to be able to shutdown pipewire in order to get instant
> > ALSA access.
> >
> > This was a real pain until pulseaudio recognized what they need to do:
> >
> > systemctl --user stop pulseaudio
> > systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.socket
> > killall pulseaudio
> >
> > If you want real low latency you won't do any additional layer on top of
> > ALSA.
> >
> > Further, my application provides some functional integration tests.
> >
> > http://nongnu.org/gsequencer
> >
> > just run:
> >
> > ./configure --enable-run-functional-tests
> > make
> > make check
> >
> > Alternatively you can run against installed libraries:
> >
> > ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-run-functional-tests
> > make
> > make ags-integration-functional-test
> >
> > Or to run in parallel using xvfb-run:
> >
> > ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-run-functional-tests
> > make
> > make ags-parallel-integration-functional-test
> >
> > Didn't look at pipewire, yet. Finally, please consider to shutdown the
> > process completely as desired.
> >
>
> We already have to have PipeWire running in GNOME and Plasma for
> Wayland sessions, so we can't completely shut it off. However, the
> pipewire-pulseaudio package provides a separate set of PulseAudio
> services with the same unit names as the ones provided by the
> pulseaudio package. Shutting those down would have the same effect for
> you.

Well I used to `dnf remove pulseaudio` might be I have to `dnf remove pipewire`,
then.

>
> That being said, I have spoken to a few audio engineers, and basically
> none of them use ALSA directly. They can't because ALSA doesn't
> support mixing properly, among other things. Most of them use JACK or
> PulseAudio, depending on their requirements. PipeWire is intended to
> simplify the pro audio case while bringing those benefits to casual
> audiophiles who use PulseAudio.

I really doubt that you listen to youtube while creating music. What do
you want to mix? Might be for some exotic JACK setup.

>
>
>
>
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