On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 12:17:55AM -0800, Gary wrote:
Anyone played around with pipewire. I was just going to do some pacmd stuff on one of my recent Fedora 38 installs when I found out I am actually running pipewire-pulse instead of pulseaudio. It's suppose to be a seamless dropin for pulseaudio, but pacmd doesn't seem to see it.
The man pages and online documentation for pipewire seems a bit sparse.
I am pretty sure it has to do with the audio mixer.
I took my Dell 350 PII and I installed Debian and I got sound going with amixer.
But wait, there's more! It can chop, slice, cut, and more!
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/
"PulseAudio is a sound server system for POSIX OSes, meaning that it is a proxy for your sound applications. It is an integral part of all relevant modern Linux distributions and is used in various mobile devices, by multiple vendors. It performs advanced operations on sound data as it passes between your application and hardware. Things like transferring audio to a different machine, changing the sample format or channel count, or mixing several sounds into one input/output, are easily achieved using PulseAudio"
there is a call for developers. Because, the guys who wrote it, left and got real jobs!
Brian