Open oemsysadm opened 1 year ago
What is a pipewire?
Low latency and high efficiency audio/video system that essentially replaces all the other sound servers, including jack:
It's a lot less frustrating to work with as well.
Did you try it out locally on your system? I can't find any rigid performance comparisons between PipeWire and Jack.
I use it on my arch based PC's, but have not tried it on a raspberry pi. It makes handling audio/midi a lot less of a headache, and it transparently replaces all the commonly used sound servers.
These are the most in depth performance numbers I could find:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/Performance
Waiting for a 1.0 version of PipeWire would be wiser.
Pipewire version 1.0 stable was released over half a year ago.
Pipewire 1.1.82 is the latest release and everything seems fine with an active userbase in the millions thanks to Debian (12+), Pop! OS (22.04+), Ubuntu (22.10+), Fedora (34+), among others changing their audio defaults to pipewire.
I know this project is pretty sleepy but it could be worth a poke around to see how much would need to be changed to make the switch and update the configuration tools.
+1 for pipewire!
Any chance of this going to pipewire in the future?