Re: pipewire (was: Re: No, the topic wasn't mp3's)

On 12 Apr 2024 03:41:54 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
<l7ros2FhmsvU1@mid.individual.net>:

On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 02:44:57 -0000 (UTC), vallor wrote:
 

Actually -- hey!  I'm pretty sure I asked in here a few weeks ago if
anyone had tried pipewire.  Besides the sound, I like the idea of being
able to intercept my camera feed to add effects.[*]

 
It's the default on Fedora, so I guess I have 'tried' pipewire to the
extent that my Bluetooth earbuds work.

Well, I tried it.  Installed pipewire-pulse, rebooted, then
ran pavucontrol.[*]

Alas, it didn't show my devices.

Poked around a little and found WirePlumber, hoping that
was the app to replace pavucontrol.  Apparently not.

So I removed pipewire-pulse and rebooted, and everything went back to
normal in pavucontrol.

I'll revisit it in the future, but initially, it's a bit
disappointing that it didn't "just work".

This was on Linux Mint 21.2.

[*] For those who don't know:

PAVUCONTROL(1)                                   PAVUCONTROL(1)

NAME
       pavucontrol - A volume control for the PulseAudio sound
       server

SYNOPSIS
       pavucontrol

DESCRIPTION
       A simple volume control tool (mixer) for the PulseAudio
       sound server. In contrast to classic mixer tools this
       one allows you to control both the volume of hardware
       devices and of each playback stream separately. It also
       allows you to redirect a playback stream to another
       output device without interrupting playback.

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-v