Public bug reported: I have this bug also if I install pipewire manaully on focal and jammy.
I use a Java Application using the javax.sound package to get a output to the AudioSystem. I have an own Java library using the same and I poked around a bit: It uses Alsa as Output. The line object Java provides has the possibility to ask for the available bytes in the buffer. Normally with pulseaudio you can see the buffer getting filled and then, as the audio get's played back, recovering by the played back bytes amount. With pipewire-pulse on the other hand it just fills the buffer and reporting no more available bytes. But it plays back the bytes successfully written to the buffer. Meaning its unable to write more, as the available buffer size never recovers, even though the already written ones have been played just fine. I have checked the behavior also on Debain-testing, Manjaro and Fedora. Fedora is the only distro without this problem. Fedora has the package pipewire-alsa in its repositories and installed, which is not available on the other distros. If I have understood it correctly, the alsa functionality should be included into the default pipewire-pulse now, but for some reason fedora decided to keep the extra package? So I'd really like to see pipewire-pulse being the default in the future, but this has to be fixed somehow. For reference, here's an issue on the pipewire gitlab I've filed already about this: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/2255 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10 Package: pipewire-pulse 0.3.48-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-27.28-generic 5.15.30 Uname: Linux 5.15.0-27-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Thu May 26 14:58:40 2022 InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-05-26 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic Kudu" - Alpha amd64 (20220525) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: pipewire UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: pipewire (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug focal jammy kinetic pipewire third-party-packages -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pipewire in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1975823 Title: pipewire alsa blocks after initial buffer size of data got written Status in pipewire package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I have this bug also if I install pipewire manaully on focal and jammy. I use a Java Application using the javax.sound package to get a output to the AudioSystem. I have an own Java library using the same and I poked around a bit: It uses Alsa as Output. The line object Java provides has the possibility to ask for the available bytes in the buffer. Normally with pulseaudio you can see the buffer getting filled and then, as the audio get's played back, recovering by the played back bytes amount. With pipewire-pulse on the other hand it just fills the buffer and reporting no more available bytes. But it plays back the bytes successfully written to the buffer. Meaning its unable to write more, as the available buffer size never recovers, even though the already written ones have been played just fine. I have checked the behavior also on Debain-testing, Manjaro and Fedora. Fedora is the only distro without this problem. Fedora has the package pipewire-alsa in its repositories and installed, which is not available on the other distros. If I have understood it correctly, the alsa functionality should be included into the default pipewire-pulse now, but for some reason fedora decided to keep the extra package? So I'd really like to see pipewire-pulse being the default in the future, but this has to be fixed somehow. For reference, here's an issue on the pipewire gitlab I've filed already about this: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/2255 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10 Package: pipewire-pulse 0.3.48-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-27.28-generic 5.15.30 Uname: Linux 5.15.0-27-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Thu May 26 14:58:40 2022 InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-05-26 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic Kudu" - Alpha amd64 (20220525) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: pipewire UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pipewire/+bug/1975823/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
