Pipewire in Fedora 27

tknomanzr · 2017-09-21 00:57:33

https://fedoramagazine.org/improved-multimedia-support-pipewire-fedora-27/

Looks like someone decided to tackle the mess that multimedia is in Linux, especially sound.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-09-21 06:11:21

^ it's already in Arch's [Gnome-Unstable] repositories:

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=pipewire

Looks like I'll be adding those to my Arch [testing] box tonight then... ]:D

ohnonot · 2017-09-21 06:22:09

^ i think i saw this discussed as "pulseaudio now also does video" somewhere.

of course some people say "oh no, redhat is at it again..."

tknomanzr · 2017-09-21 12:06:26

^ I guess I am just hoping against hope they will come up with some sort of unified approach, especially for sound. At the moment, it seems to me the state of Linux sound is like, "I know a path through the forest, so I follow it. I don't actually go into the forest though. It is way too scary and messy." That is the Linux soundscape to me. I mostly know how to get things working but really I mostly cling to the well-trodden path. I have read pulseaudio's wiki numerous times and can say most of it still doesn't make any sense.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-09-21 21:08:28

empty@Xanadu:~ $ pacman -Q pipewire
pipewire 0.1.5+2+g8f67aa2-2
empty@Xanadu:~ $

tknomanzr · 2017-09-22 02:53:41

I foresee an Arch install in my near future.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-09-22 05:58:47

^ I can't recommend it right at this moment — I've had to upgrade to GNOME 3.26 to get pipewire and the desktop is a little bit broken, I can't even start gnome-terminal

I will make some bug reports this weekend and hopefully get things fixed.

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Pipewire in Fedora 27

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