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Den 02.10.2022 11:47, skrev Michael: |
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> On Saturday, 1 October 2022 19:32:11 BST Daniel Sonck wrote: |
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>> On zaterdag 1 oktober 2022 19:11:19 CEST Wol wrote: |
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>>> On 01/10/2022 17:56, Michael wrote: |
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>>>> Anyway, I ventured into pipewire because I wanted to see if Skype would |
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>>>> work without pulseaudio and in this system it won't. After I manually |
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>>>> installed pipewire Skype won't access the microphone. 🙁 |
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>>> I've got some vague feeling that pipewire is designed to happily sit |
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>>> under pulseaudio. The design aim was to replace both Jack and pulseaudio |
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>>> but it basically just presents a sound device to the layers above, so |
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>>> just like you can stack block devices for disk access, you can stack |
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>>> jack, pulseaudio and pipewire for sound. |
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>> Well, it is actually designed as a drop-in replacement and won't present |
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>> audio devices in the sense pulseaudio wants to receive it. I guess it would |
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>> theoretically be possible to use pulseaudio's jack sink to talk to |
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>> pipewire, but pipewire has the full pulseaudio interface for pulseaudio |
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>> applications. |
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> At the moment only some applications support PipeWire's native API, but most |
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> support PulseAudio's API. When you come across an application like Skype |
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> which expects PulseAudio, the solution is to enable USE="sound-server |
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> pipewire-alsa" for PipeWire and in addition to PipeWire also install media- |
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> libs/libpulse. No other PulseAudio packages are needed. |
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To get that, I seem to need media-sound/pulseaudio (meta package) with |
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USE="-daemon" |
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> |
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> Thereafter an application requiring PulseAudio uses PipeWire, the latter |
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> emulating PulseAudio's server by using PulseAudio's API via libpulse. |
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> |
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> I applied the above and now the microphone in Skype works again. I assume the |
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> same applies to other PulseAudio friendly applications, which won't play |
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> nicely with PipeWire only. I suppose at some point PulseAudio will be |
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> completely replaced by PipeWire and applications will update their code |
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> accordingly. |
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