📆 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: https://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}

I learnt something important about Linux audio last night.

I noticed that I had no sound in X-Plane 12 (a flight simulator) while also being in a Discord call in Firefox. Apparently, certain FMOD applications check if PulseAudio is installed and fall back to ALSA if it isn't. Now, I have PipeWire installed to fix the mess that is Linux audio once and for all. So TECHNICALLY PulseAudio is not installed. And that's exactly what X-Plane detected, which then tried to gain complete control over the sound hardware through ALSA, which it couldn't.

The "fix" was to symlink `/bin/pulseaudio` to `/bin/true` to make it look like PulseAudio is available which tricked X-Plane into going through PulseAudio (and therefore through PipeWire) instead.

That was one of the weirdest problems I've ever encountered.

#linux #audio #xplane #xplane12 #discord #firefox #alsa #pulseaudio #pipewire #fmod #flightsim

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

https://pipewire.pages.freedesktop.org/wireplumber/daemon/configuration/migration.html

#PipeWire @pipewire

📢 As some users have been surprised by this, let me make this clear that #WirePlumber 0.5.0 uses a different configuration format, so any configuration files that you previously had in place will stop working after the upgrade ⚠️

I will provide a small guide on how to migrate things shortly.

#PipeWire @pipewire

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

https://asymptotic.io/blog/pipewire-compressed-offload/

#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.

https://gitlab.com/hanku.lee/fedora-release-party-presentation/-/blob/main/obs-audio-setup.pdf

#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: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/wireplumber/-/releases/0.5.0

#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 https://9to5linux.com/obs-studio-30-1-released-with-av1-support-for-va-api-pipewire-camera-source

@pipewire #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

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

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

talk:
https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1988-pipewire-state-of-the-union/

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

I've been using #pipewire for about 2 years now, and for the last 12 months more heavily (daily, with bluetooth headphones and earbuds interchangeably, every day).

It's been rock-solid, never had a single issue. Audio is great, no noticeable lags, no glitches, no bugs. Just works.

It's this piece of Linux infrastructure which just sits there in the background and does its job perfectly, like it's not even there.

Kudos to @pipewire ! 🏆

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.
https://fedoramagazine.org/pipewire-1-0-an-interview-with-pipewire-creator-wim-taymans/

#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

Big thanks to Sakamoto for stepping up to maintain the #Firewire subsystem for the #Linux kernel.
I still use an #RME #Fireface800 and it works super well with the #ALSA driver he wrote using #pipewire.

I hope even post 2029 someone will be up for maintaining it as the devices are solid and using them on Linux is a great countermeasure against their planned obsolescence.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Firewire-New-Maintainer

Linux Has A New Firewire IEEE-1394 Maintainer - Intends To Maintain Support To 2029

It's likely been years since many of you have heard of Firewire and some readers likely never had the opportunity to use it

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