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On Monday, 3 October 2022 22:48:09 BST Håkon Alstadheim wrote: |
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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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> >>> |
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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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> >> |
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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 |
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> >> 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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> > |
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> > At the moment only some applications support PipeWire's native API, but |
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> > most support PulseAudio's API. When you come across an application like |
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> > Skype which expects PulseAudio, the solution is to enable |
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> > USE="sound-server pipewire-alsa" for PipeWire and in addition to PipeWire |
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> > also install media- libs/libpulse. No other PulseAudio packages are |
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> > 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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This USE flag setting would be required if you use pulseaudio (I don't have it |
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installed) and need to avoid it fighting with pipewire over control |
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of audio devices. |
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At the present moment, because the migration to pipewire is work-in-progress, |
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there are a number of options available to cover all use cases, depending on |
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your system configuration and init system: |
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https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server.html |
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