Comment by simoncion
10 months ago
Did pipewire actually build in their pulseaudio and JACK emulation, or is it still acting as a shim between already-running pulseaudio and JACK daemons?
Also, (FWIW) I've a fine time with JACK2, openrc, and xorg. I had to do some manual work to tell JACK which sound card to use and to set up the pulseaudio backfill for software that doesn't know how to speak to JACK, [0] but everything else just works.
[0] The "tricky" part was disabling all pulseaudio backend modules but the JACK backend. This was -of course- not tricky at all.
It's a reimplementation of a pulseaudio server and a reimplementation of the jack client library. See https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ...
Ah. Glad to hear that they finally got that done. Good for them! (I hope it's feature complete, and hope there aren't any subtle bugs in it! (And if there happen to be any bugs, I hope they're super committed to acknowledging them and fixing them.))
Thanks much for the link to the FAQ.