What are your thoughts on PulseAudio?
What are your thoughts on PulseAudio?
Landon Morris
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Joshua Perez
Jow Forums told me it's a bloated piece of shit.
I would appreciate some more nuanced insights, too. Are there alternatives? So far pulseaudio worked OK for me, but lately I had some troubles with audio.....
Matthew Evans
I don't understand what it's for
Connor Brooks
It's overly fragile.
Michael Myers
increasing cpu load
Zachary Williams
> Developer: Lennart Poettering
It is systemd level shit
Brayden Cook
>sndio
>20k loc
>only depends ok kernel API and libc
>pulseaudio
>223k loc
>29 top-level build dependencies, some of them even bigger
why is freedesktop doing that?
Levi Sanchez
This. Why the hell does it exist? Poettering's explanations, at least the ones listed in the wikipedia page last time I read it, said that we needed it to move away from OSS, which he called a "simplistic 90's audio stack" or something to that effect. The thing is though, at the time that statement was made, the Linux kernel had already gotten rid of OSS and replaced with ALSA, so his own justification for Pulseaudio's creation was outdated by the time he said it.
seems like it.
Mason Rogers
still better than raw alsa
David Lee
Easiest per-application sound control.
Isaac Martinez
Well whether you liked it or not, don't worry, guys, because RedHat has come to redo the Linux audio stack yet again!
pipewire.org
and since their website font color/background color choices are utter shit, here's what the text says:
>PipeWire is a project that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. It aims to support the usecases currently handled by both PulseAudio and Jack and at the same time provide same level of powerful handling of Video input and output. It also introduces a security model that makes interacting with audio and video devices from containerized applications easy, with supporting Flatpak applications being the primary goal. Alongside Wayland and Flatpak we expect PipeWire to provide a core building block for the future of Linux application development.
Dominic Roberts
I don't really have an opinion on it. My system uses it and it plays sound so it seems to be doing its job.
Daniel Flores
Exactly. Couldn't care less about philosophical bullshit and who the fuck is Lennard. Pulse jest werkz
Anthony Reyes
unironically this
pulseaudio was made for a good reason, but with some bad design decisions. fixes a few flaws in ALSA, but adds many more
Jonathan Edwards
I never heard of them.
Daniel Torres
>per-application volume
>multiple audio sources
>system wideequalization
>timer-based scheduling
>network audio
A good PA use will be mixing a music player output with mic input and sending it over network or as input to a VoIP program while keeping music player speaker output.
Sebastian Clark
>2018
>still cannot route a single application to a specific sound device on any OS
Very low iq audio engineers in america. Very low iq.
Cooper Perry
It's only good if you lock it into its KEKshed by making it a JACK client so it can't touch ALSA.
Wyatt James
PA does that though
Elijah Lopez
Jack style routing designed into it? No Pottering?
I may give it a go.
Christian Bennett
It's a penus
Jeremiah Sanchez
As with a lot of RedHat stuff, it gets its test run in Fedora, so try that out in a VM or on real hardware to see this and whatever else they're working on.
Lucas Cox
I dont have pulseaudio, i use alsa, pure alsa system, i dont miss it a bit, well except my web browser wont play the audio included in videos, but i dont give a damn about that, but the audio in the videos on my PC works fine without pulseadio,
no systemd either, :)
Gabriel Wilson
You can do that with pulseaudio easily.
hell you can even do it though a cute ncurses UI, with pulsemixer
Christopher Miller
it just a wrapper around alsa
Grayson Thompson
It's likely you can recompile your browser to work with just alsa, as well
Michael Davis
it's a lot better than it used to be.
Lucas Jenkins
This! It really isn't that bad from a user experience standpoint now a days. It was total garbage when it first came out. From my personal experience, it started not being shit around five to eight years ago.