Is there a deep reason why #PipeWire doesn't prefer my plugged-in HDMI sink over my non-plugged-in on-board codec? I was going to rant, but I'm thinking that perhaps I've missed something about the PipeWire philosophy. and I'm open to learning something new about Linux audio.

I'm only annoyed by this because the machine in question is #NixOS with Impermanence; I haven't yet told it how to persist sound settings between boots, so it can't. I recognize that PipeWire's answer of "just open up whatever you *used to use* and reassign the inputs *once*" is a great answer.

Okay, thank you #fediverse! My #pipewire / #cider / #ubuntu woes are solved 😎

Thanks to @stevenixon, @BradRubenstein and @korvroffe for suggesting a combination of mkchromecast (to discover and connect to the chromecast devices on my network and create a virtual audio device) and qpwgraph for building a virtual patch bay to route audio from apps to devices (similar to loopback on macOS)

A little #PIpeWire tip I learned today. If you want to use OBS Studio with a Google Meet session in Firefox. Start OBS Studio first, if not Firefox will set a format for the camera that OBS Studio do not support and you get a black box in OBS Studio. The other way is fine.

Wim is working on a proper solution, adding video conversion to PipeWire, but for now the ordering do matter.

Silly #PipeWire question for people out here… the program `pw-cat` takes raw input via `stdin`, and through experimentation on my AMD64 machine, I see it is little-endian audio.

Now, is it little-endian because AMD64 is little-endian, or is it little-endian because it's hard-coded for little-endian audio?

If I ran the same commands on a big-endian architecture (Sun SPARC, IBM PowerPC, MIPS, … etc), would PipeWire assume big-endian audio or little-endian?

The reason why we need a good #floss #fdo camera stack - and why we do all this work around #libcamera and #pipewire on #linuxmobile is not because we want to make beautiful pictures and videos. I almost never take pictures - do you?
The reason is that we need to be able to scan BSOD QR codes 🤷

#mobilelinux

If you use #pipewire for cameras you can now (in the upcoming 1.2) enforce specific rotations via node rules. This is useful on devices with rotated cameras that don't use a DT and #libcamera or for testing (e.g. to find out the correct rotation of a phone camera). The rotation is respected by an increasing number of apps, notably #gstreamer based ones (like Snapshot - but not Cheese) and #firefox (if you enable PW cameras via `media.webrtc.camera.allow-pipewire`).

See gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewir…

Webcam is upside down when pipewire is running. (#4034) · Issues · PipeWire / pipewire · GitLab

PipeWire version (pipewire --version): 1.0.7. Distribution and distribution version (PRETTY_NAME from /etc/os-release): Ubuntu Oracular Oriole (development branch). Desktop Environment: Sway Wayland...

^GitLab

#firefox #webrtc using #pipewire and #libcamera (with softwareISP) on a #thinkpadx13s - it finally works

The required patches will also make things work for a bunch of #linuxmobile devices.

💻 Last week I had a great time at the #GStreamer #hackfest ! I decided to take the opportunity there to hack on the #PipeWire GStreamer elements and here's my story: gkiagia.gr/2024-06-04-hacking-…

#GstHackfest @gstreamer @pipewire

Just want to quickly share with #linuxmobile folks that the new #libcamera softwareISP does indeed work with the #librem5 - and with a #PipeWire + #GStreamer pipeline. Here's a first image running Warp (from Flathub).

There's still some stuff to iron out to make this work reliably and ship to users - but things are falling into place.

📆 Next Thursday at #EmbeddedOSSummit in Seattle, don't miss my colleague's Julian Bouzas presentation on #WirePlumber smart filters! There is also going to be a live stream, in case you are not attending in person.

Learn more at: eoss24.sched.com/event/1aBG9

#osssummit #embedded #pipewire

WirePlumber 0.5: Bringing Smart Audio Filters to PipeWire - Julian Bouzas, Collabora

WirePlumber is the default session manager of PipeWire, the multimedia server that has become the standard for low-latency audio, Bluetooth, video capture and many more use cases on modern Linux systems.

^{eoss24.sched.com}

As promised, a basic migration guide on how to transform your #WirePlumber 0.4 config files into the 0.5 format is now available! 🥳

pipewire.pages.freedesktop.org…

#PipeWire @pipewire

A long pending post from @sanchayan on how we implemented ALSA compress offload support in @pipewire

asymptotic.io/blog/pipewire-co…

#PipeWire #LinuxAudio #Linux #audio #embedded #IOT

I put together recording setup guide for Fedora Linux using OBS Studio. Only GUI, not messing with config files.

gitlab.com/hanku.lee/fedora-re…

#linux #jitsi #obs #fedora #audio #PipeWire

obs-audio-setup.pdf · main · Hank Lee / Fedora Event Presentation · GitLab

GitLab.com

^GitLab

📢 WirePlumber 0.5.0 is out! 🎉 Get it while it's hot: gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewir…

#PipeWire #WirePlumber #release #announcement

0.5.0 · PipeWire / wireplumber · GitLab

Changes: Bumped the minimum required version of PipeWire to 1.0.2, because we make use of the 'api.bluez5.internal' property of the BlueZ monitor (

^GitLab

OBS Studio 30.1 Released with AV1 Support for VA-API, #PipeWire Camera Source, and Much More 9to5linux.com/obs-studio-30-1-…

@pipewire #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

The video of the talk from Wim Taymans about #PipeWire at #fosdem is released.

video:
video.fosdem.org/2024/ub4132/

talk:
fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event…

What a fantastic talk! Really helpful and interesting, although I follow the progress of the project quite closely.
Audio quality was much better than last year.

@pipewire

FOSDEM 2024 - PipeWire State of the Union

^fosdem.org

Hey, is the feature "combine sinks" still there? I could not get it to work on Fedora, but having dual Bluetooth output would be great.

#pipewire #fedora #bluetooth

Fedora Magazine got an interview up of Wim Taymans about the PipeWire 1.0 release and plans going forward.
fedoramagazine.org/pipewire-1-…

#linux #pipewire #fedora #audio

PipeWire 1.0 - An interview with PipeWire creator Wim Taymans - Fedora Magazine

With PIpeWire hitting its 1.0 release we speak with project lead Wim Taymans about what has been achieved and where we go from here.

^{Christian Fredrik Schaller (Fedora Project)}

@dino 0.4.3 just got released with some exciting improvements for #LinuxMobile

1. Several fixes for touch input, making audio/video calls actually usable on phones
2. Fixes for video support so devices with #libcamera / #pipewire support like the #PinePhonePro work now
3. The app is now recognized as mobile friendly on #Phosh
4. Stricter #Flatpak sandbox - no device/all any more

The new version is available on #Flathub and lots of distro repos.

#GNOME #xmpp #Jabber

This is @halfmexican; GNOME Outreachy student excited that their effort to make a modern and sandboxed Camera demo for Workbench has paid off 🛠️

Well done! 🎉

Thanks @philn and @slomo for your help!

#GNOME #Outreachy #development #students #GStreamer #PipeWire #Flatpak #freedesktop #libcamera #GTK