• Björn Tantau
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    5410 months ago

    I’ve seen so many audio changes on Linux. But Pipewire is the first one without any negatives.

    • Helix 🧬
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      3010 months ago

      Yeah it’s basically Pulseaudio, but better. The devs have done a great job on iterating upon the already pretty good pulseaudio!

          • @wewbull@feddit.uk
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            710 months ago

            Pipewire replaces the need for jack, which was low latency audio routing between audio components. Pipewire even has jack compatible interfaces so you can use jack based apps with it.

            Then there’s the bit most people skip over. Pipewire does the same thing for video!

          • @gens@programming.dev
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            610 months ago

            Didn’t work on my last two sound cards, and always had latency problems for many people.

            JACK is for profesionals. If you need to take an input from an instrument, run it through a software filter, and output it immediately. Or if you need to output from one program to another to another. Etc. Usually that means small buffers and a lot of cpu usage. Not really for normal desktop users. Grab a specialized distro like ubuntu studio and try it, if you want.