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

2021-07-09 Thread Len Ovens
On Sat, 3 Jul 2021, John Murphy wrote: On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 16:11:47 -0700 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: 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

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

2021-07-07 Thread Yuri
On 6/30/21 3:58 PM, Robin Gareus wrote: 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 changed. When the Jack option is enabled in Pipewire it expects Jack >= 1.9.10 to

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

2021-07-07 Thread Filipe Coelho
On 07/07/21 22:37, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 09:58:52PM +0100, Filipe Coelho wrote: You keep mentioning up that patch, but it only worked for you, it didn't for anyone else. It was used for years on the WFS system in Parma, until I switched to Jack2 in order to have

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

2021-07-07 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 09:58:52PM +0100, Filipe Coelho wrote: > Except your patch was super messy, not formatted correctly and lead to other > issues, as described here: It was indeed a very big one, and fixed several issues: * wrong order of execution of clients, * high order polynomial

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

2021-07-07 Thread Wim Taymans
On Wed, 7 Jul 2021, 22:55 Fons Adriaensen, wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 10:44:23PM +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > > With jack2 this takes 0.5s to create the clients, and on average 0.1s to > > connect all of them in a chain (15 * 32 connect calls). > > Correction: after removing some

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

2021-07-07 Thread Filipe Coelho
On 07/07/21 21:44, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 01:00:21PM +0200, Wim Taymans wrote: Challenge accepted!... I made a little jack client with 32 input and 32 output ports that memcpy the samples. Then I started 16 of those and linked them all in a long chain. Then I linked

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

2021-07-07 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 10:44:23PM +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > With jack2 this takes 0.5s to create the clients, and on average 0.1s to > connect all of them in a chain (15 * 32 connect calls). Correction: after removing some print() statements the total connections time was reduced to 50

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

2021-07-07 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 01:00:21PM +0200, Wim Taymans wrote: > Challenge accepted!... I made a little jack client with 32 input and 32 output > ports that memcpy the samples. Then I started 16 of those and linked them > all in a long chain. > > Then I linked the input of the chain to a USB mic

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

2021-07-07 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On 7/7/21 9:59 AM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: On 7/7/21 4:00 AM, Wim Taymans wrote: ... == install patched rtkit in which priorities and cpu usage limits have been changed to more audio dsp friendly values < NOTE: max realtime priorities in rtkit are hardwired (in the source code!!) and

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

2021-07-07 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On 7/7/21 4:00 AM, Wim Taymans wrote: On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 at 21:41, Fons Adriaensen wrote: I'll give PW its chance when the developers tell me it's ready for real life. Which will mean a session with around 15 jack clients with a total of 800 or so ports. Should run without hickups while

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

2021-07-07 Thread Wim Taymans
On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 at 14:05, Filipe Coelho wrote: > > On 07/07/21 12:37, Robin Gareus wrote: > > On 7/7/21 1:00 PM, Wim Taymans wrote: > >> This utterly fails with jackd on this system, it doesn't even want > >> to start all the clients, I'm sure it's something with the config > >> somewhere...

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

2021-07-07 Thread Filipe Coelho
On 07/07/21 12:37, Robin Gareus wrote: On 7/7/21 1:00 PM, Wim Taymans wrote: This utterly fails with jackd on this system, it doesn't even want to start all the clients, I'm sure it's something with the config somewhere... jack has a port-limit (IIRC 256 by default). It is not dynamic and

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

2021-07-07 Thread Robin Gareus
On 7/7/21 1:00 PM, Wim Taymans wrote: > This utterly fails with jackd on this system, it doesn't even want > to start all the clients, I'm sure it's something with the config somewhere... jack has a port-limit (IIRC 256 by default). It is not dynamic and unbound for performance reasons. try:

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

2021-07-07 Thread Wim Taymans
On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 at 21:41, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > > I'll give PW its chance when the developers tell me it's ready for > real life. Which will mean a session with around 15 jack clients > with a total of 800 or so ports. Should run without hickups while > watching a youtube movie and

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

2021-07-07 Thread Will Godfrey
On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 09:31:10 +0200 Fons Adriaensen wrote: >On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 03:54:22PM -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > >> Yes, yes, agreed. And most of the time you cannot remove stuff, and that is >> by design. > >That has been my impression as well. > >> I long for simple text

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

2021-07-07 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 03:54:22PM -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > Yes, yes, agreed. And most of the time you cannot remove stuff, and that is > by design. That has been my impression as well. > I long for simple text configuration files, you change it, restart whatever > it is if it is

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

2021-07-06 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On 7/6/21 12:41 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 12:37:55PM +0100, Will Godfrey wrote: At one time you added things that you wanted. These days you have to remove what you don't want - but might not even know was there until it interferes with what you want to do. This is

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

2021-07-06 Thread John Murphy
New problem. I run jack_capture, at certain times, via cron. Can run the script manually and it works fine, but just doesn't start from the cronjob. I have no idea why. Same story with arecord and pw-record (which has no -d duration). Script works fine from command line, but no joy from the

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

2021-07-06 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 12:37:55PM +0100, Will Godfrey wrote: > At one time you added things that you wanted. These days you have to remove > what you don't want - but might not even know was there until it interferes > with what you want to do. This is *exactly* what I profoundly hate about the

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

2021-07-06 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On 7/4/21 6:25 PM, Robin Gareus wrote: On 7/4/21 6:35 PM, John Murphy wrote: On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:48:31 -0700 Yuri wrote: [...] Does anybody have experience using it? https://pipewire.org/ Yes. I've used it for a whole day now, on Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base (Ubuntu 20.04 focal).

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

2021-07-06 Thread John Murphy
On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 15:27:53 +0100 I wrote: > I may have to do one of those. I think James Szinger's prediction [1] > is accurate, although, while I am confused I am not yet "wailing". > Now wailing with joy having found a workaround. Simply need to send 'play' to jack_transport after any

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

2021-07-06 Thread John Murphy
On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 03:25:09 +0200 Robin Gareus wrote: > On 7/4/21 6:35 PM, John Murphy wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:48:31 -0700 Yuri wrote: > > [...] > >> Does anybody have experience using it? > >> > >> https://pipewire.org/ > > > > Yes. I've used it for a whole day now, on Linux Mint

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

2021-07-06 Thread Will Godfrey
On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 12:42:06 +0200 Fons Adriaensen wrote: >On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 12:05:00PM +0200, Wim Taymans wrote: > >> The pipewire daemon is meant to be small and modular. You could run >> a custom version of that with only what you want. It could possibly be >> smaller than jack. >

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

2021-07-06 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 12:05:00PM +0200, Wim Taymans wrote: > The pipewire daemon is meant to be small and modular. You could run > a custom version of that with only what you want. It could possibly be > smaller than jack. Systemd started off like that as well... and now it has its tentacles

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

2021-07-06 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 10:04:28AM +0100, Will Godfrey wrote: > What on earth has this got to do with systemd? Although I > suppose I shouldn't be surprised with it coming from redhat. I've started moving away from systemd on all systems. Not finished yet but getting close. Had a look at the PW

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

2021-07-06 Thread Will Godfrey
On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 10:51:17 +0200 Dominique Michel wrote: > For pipewire, as >systemd is an optional run time depend Why? What on earth has this got to do with systemd? Although I suppose I shouldn't be surprised with it coming from redhat. -- Will J Godfrey https://willgodfrey.bandcamp.com/

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

2021-07-06 Thread Dominique Michel
Le Thu, 1 Jul 2021 18:57:59 -0400, bill-auger a écrit : > On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 07:01:31 +0100 Keith wrote: > > > The biggest issue with Pipewire IMHO is that it does not support > > > Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. > > > > I would suggest you have that round the wrong way: Ubuntu 18.04 > > doesn't support

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

2021-07-04 Thread Robin Gareus
On 7/4/21 6:35 PM, John Murphy wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:48:31 -0700 Yuri wrote: > [...] >> Does anybody have experience using it? >> >> https://pipewire.org/ > > Yes. I've used it for a whole day now, on Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base > (Ubuntu 20.04 focal). Everything seems to just work.

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

2021-07-04 Thread Gordonjcp
On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 06:57:59PM -0400, bill-auger wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 07:01:31 +0100 Keith wrote: > > the distro is not at fault for "failing" to support something, > which did not exist, or was very immature, or proprietary, when > the dirsto was released > The distro is at fault

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

2021-07-04 Thread Kevin Cole
A few weeks ago, before my Ubuntu Studio 20.04 + KX Studio beastie died -- it was an 11-year-old laptop that finally got knocked off of a table -- I tried Pipewire and completely messed up the system. Prior to that I had Cadence nicely integrating ALSA, PulseAudio, and JACK. At least, it seemed to

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

2021-07-04 Thread John Murphy
On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:48:31 -0700 Yuri wrote: [...] > Does anybody have experience using it? > > https://pipewire.org/ Yes. I've used it for a whole day now, on Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base (Ubuntu 20.04 focal). Everything seems to just work. The only thing I had to set was the Profile for the

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

2021-07-02 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Cool! I'll check it out! On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 6:12 PM John Murphy wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 16:11:47 -0700 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > > > 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

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

2021-07-02 Thread John Murphy
On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 16:11:47 -0700 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > 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

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

2021-07-02 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 7/2/21 1:32 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: The particular incident that relates to Pipewire arose from the latter category - I saw some interesting writing about Pipewire and wanted to experiment with it on the NVIDIA Jetsons. They ship with an NVIDIA-supported operating system called

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

2021-07-01 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Let me say a bit more about my situation. I run a mix of Windows 10/11 (including Windows Subsystem for Linux) and Linux audio software. Some is proprietary with a corporate support model, some is bundled with hardware (NVIDIA Jetsons and Bela) and supported by the hardware vendor, and some is

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

2021-07-01 Thread bill-auger
On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 07:01:31 +0100 Keith wrote: > > The biggest issue with Pipewire IMHO is that it does not support > > Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. > > I would suggest you have that round the wrong way: Ubuntu 18.04 doesn't > support Pipewire. This is a Ubuntu problem, not a Pipewire one. If it > matters

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

2021-07-01 Thread Will Godfrey
On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 07:01:31 +0100 Keith Edmunds wrote: >> The biggest issue with Pipewire IMHO is that it does not support >> Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. > >I would suggest you have that round the wrong way: Ubuntu 18.04 doesn't >support Pipewire. This is a Ubuntu problem, not a Pipewire one. If it

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

2021-07-01 Thread Keith Edmunds
> The biggest issue with Pipewire IMHO is that it does not support > Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I would suggest you have that round the wrong way: Ubuntu 18.04 doesn't support Pipewire. This is a Ubuntu problem, not a Pipewire one. If it matters to an 18.04 user, they do have the option of upgrading to

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