• pinchcramp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    Official Release Page for those who don't want to read the Phoronix article: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/releases/1.0.0

    It's great to see that Pipewire has reached this milestone. Personally I've been using it since 0.3.35 for very basic audio needs and it's been a very smooth transition. After installation I never had to tinker with it anymore. "It just works"TM

  • WaterWaiver@aussie.zone
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    11 months ago

    I've been using PipeWire this year on my Void Linux laptop & desktop. It's been mostly OK but has a few problems. For years I have been using plain ALSA (with no custom configuration) because pulseaudio causes me regular issues across multiple machines (mostly silently failing).

    Pros:

    • I don't have to use Chromium for my mic to work on online video conf (WTF Firefox)
    • "EasyEffects" lets me quickly fix crappy youtube audio (bad gain normalisation, way too much sibilance) with a minimum of effort.

    Cons:

    • Sometimes breaks all audio until I manually restart it (hey, just like pulseaudio. This problem never happens when using ALSA straight)
    • First time setup is complicated, involving environment variables, dbus user session buses and multiple daemons (running just pipewire isn't enough). Why can't it handle this all itself? Surely it should notice if these things are missing and just fix it itself? Compare this to straight ALSA where you (1) do nothing and then (2) everything works (except Firefox mic support)
    • I can't have multiple audio outputs all unmuted at the same time. Eg my headphone output and my rear speaker output. If I override this (using alsamixer) then it gets forgotten next boot anyway, it seems to be out of scope of PipeWire's understanding.
    • LiveLM@lemmy.zip
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      11 months ago

      Nope. This will only be fixed when Discord gets their head out of their ass, unlikely to happen soon.

    • WaterWaiver@aussie.zone
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      11 months ago

      Can you describe the issue? I don't use Discord (and I presume the problem might depend on what browser you use).

      • Clever_Clover [she/her]
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        11 months ago

        on discord on linux you can't screenshare with desktop audio, I think this might be already fixed in newer electron versions (but discord is closed source and has not updated their electron in a long time)

      • peanutbutter_gas@lemm.ee
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        11 months ago

        I'm assuming this is a "dedicated app" (i.e. apt install discord). I was capable of streaming the video, but sound was a different beast. Audio streaming on discord was a no go. I was finally able to do it with pipewire and using discord-screenaudio

        • WaterWaiver@aussie.zone
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          11 months ago

          https://github.com/maltejur/discord-screenaudio

          A custom discord client that supports streaming with audio on Linux

          Jaysus, I wish this were a world where stuff like that wasn't necessary.

          Uneducated question: what's the benefit of a dedicated client over running it in a normal browser?

      • unce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        11 months ago

        I have discord installed from the flatpak. Screen sharing works but it doesn't share audio from the applications. Discord-screenaudio and web browser discord have been suggested to me but they don't work with unfocused push to talk. I've also tried xwaylandvideobridge but that didn't stream the audio either.