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Pipewire is revolutionizing multimedia and SPECIFICALLY audio use in Linux. It offers some truly useful ways of both approaches to managing multimedia. One of the truly interesting methods, is it's ability to "visualize" how your audio and sound devices are used in the running system.

Today, for just its audio aspect, we have audio from

• HDMI

• Soundcard(s)

• Bluetooth(s)

Pipewire provides the opportunity to visualize how audio is 'wired' in the physical system.

To use Pipewire to its fullest extent, we will need not just PUP distros moving to it, but also the utilities to visualize connections added for users to use without burdening development and support from the forum.

Once the WoofCE developers 'finally' embrace Pipewire and the necessary accompaniments, the forum will need to update its documentation on effective use and how to diagnose simple audio issues via the system's utilities.

Pipewire is really a far-reaching manner of management. Extremely impressive in its approach!

FYI...No! its For Our Information (FOI)

are ther any pups out right now with pipewire installed that the rest of us can use to experiment installing visualizer tools and configurators?

I haven't really started to try some pipewire set ups. Too unstable still to get involved in while I'm just starting to get a grip on PulseAudio in it's entirety.

My Dev systems are beginning to get long in the tooth as well. Mostly all old hardware nothing newer than the mid 2000's and some much much older than that. Still running salvaged 16 bit SoundBlaster cards from the late 90's on one or two.

rockedge wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 4:33 pm

Still running salvaged 16 bit SoundBlaster cards from the late 90's on one or two.

Last weekend I finally got around to opening and seeing what is inside the old system unit. There was a 478 socket system, a pci tuner (can no longer be used, accepts analog television ), an AGP video card (Nvidia fx 5500). And two sound cards from Creative: Sound blaster vibra 128 and SB Live!

I wanted to remove all the copper and aluminum radiators and throw them away... But it turned out that my friends would need it and I started giving it to them in parts. Maybe I'll leave Live, since there is a Gameport there, and I still have such a joystick Let's remind for young people: Gameport is a sound card connector that has 15 holes.

Pipewire was really good however there is one problem. Unable to switch to audio output when headphone is plugged in to headphone jack. You need to switched it manually. However the audio output automatically switch when audio device was disconnected/removed

I was reviewing a seminar from a year ago: This is worth it: A Linux Foundation Review of Pipewire and Wireplumber. Visualize the system operations!

AND, this (7 minute) is a more recent Wireplumber report that shows a mechanism of Pipewire's reduced resource consumption via a test case that is shown.