Re: [LAD] Is Piperware a successor to Jack/Pulseaudio?

2021-06-30 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
The biggest issue with Pipewire IMHO is that it does not support Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. That will be a big obstacle to growth until 18.04 is no longer supported, which is still about two years away. I don't know what's involved in doing a backport, but I for one would use Pipewire if it was working on

Re: [LAD] Is Piperware a successor to Jack/Pulseaudio?

2021-06-30 Thread Robin Gareus
On 7/1/21 12:48 AM, Yuri wrote: > Somebody said on GitHub that "Pipewire is the soon to be successor to > Jack/Pulseaudio". Yes, and ALSA as well to some extent. To applications pipewire looks like a running JACK server, or pulseaudio or like an ALSA device. So existing apps do not have to be

[LAD] Is Piperware a successor to Jack/Pulseaudio?

2021-06-30 Thread Yuri
Somebody said on GitHub that "Pipewire is the soon to be successor to Jack/Pulseaudio". I ran a quick search in this ML and couldn't find any mentions of it in the last few years. Is Pipewire viewed like this by the wider community? Does anybody have experience using it?