[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Pipewire not a dependency?
On Saturday, 1 October 2022 19:32:11 BST Daniel Sonck wrote: > On zaterdag 1 oktober 2022 19:11:19 CEST Wol wrote: > > On 01/10/2022 17:56, Michael wrote: > > > Anyway, I ventured into pipewire because I wanted to see if Skype would > > > work without pulseaudio and in this system it won't. After I manually > > > installed pipewire Skype won't access the microphone. 🙁 > > > > I've got some vague feeling that pipewire is designed to happily sit > > under pulseaudio. The design aim was to replace both Jack and pulseaudio > > but it basically just presents a sound device to the layers above, so > > just like you can stack block devices for disk access, you can stack > > jack, pulseaudio and pipewire for sound. > > Well, it is actually designed as a drop-in replacement and won't present > audio devices in the sense pulseaudio wants to receive it. I guess it would > theoretically be possible to use pulseaudio's jack sink to talk to > pipewire, but pipewire has the full pulseaudio interface for pulseaudio > applications. At the moment only some applications support PipeWire's native API, but most support PulseAudio's API. When you come across an application like Skype which expects PulseAudio, the solution is to enable USE="sound-server pipewire-alsa" for PipeWire and in addition to PipeWire also install media- libs/libpulse. No other PulseAudio packages are needed. Thereafter an application requiring PulseAudio uses PipeWire, the latter emulating PulseAudio's server by using PulseAudio's API via libpulse. I applied the above and now the microphone in Skype works again. I assume the same applies to other PulseAudio friendly applications, which won't play nicely with PipeWire only. I suppose at some point PulseAudio will be completely replaced by PipeWire and applications will update their code accordingly. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: Pipewire not a dependency?
On 01/10/2022 19:56, Michael wrote: Anyway, I ventured into pipewire because I wanted to see if Skype would work without pulseaudio and in this system it won't. After I manually installed pipewire Skype won't access the microphone. :-( Maybe Skype uses ALSA? It's best to enable the "pipewire-alsa" USE flag on pipewire and disable the "pulseaudio" flag on alsa-plugins: media-video/pipewire: pipewire-alsa media-plugins/alsa-plugins: -pulseaudio This replaces pulseaudio's ALSA plugin with pipewire's. Skype might work with this.
[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Pipewire not a dependency?
On 02/10/2022 12:47, Michael wrote: I applied the above and now the microphone in Skype works again. I assume the same applies to other PulseAudio friendly applications, which won't play nicely with PipeWire only. I suppose at some point PulseAudio will be completely replaced by PipeWire and applications will update their code accordingly. Pipewire recommends using the pulseaudio API anyway, at least for now: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ#what-audio-api-do-you-recommend-to-use Which makes sense. Pipewire is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for both pulseaudio and jack. And both of those aren't dead. It makes sense for applications to try and work on any system, regardless of whether pipewire is used or not.
[gentoo-user] Package "app-office/libreoffice-bin"
Greetings, after it took about three hours to build "app-office/libreoffice" on my laptop, I decided to pull the plug and install "app-office/libreoffice- bin" instead. Installing this one only took some two minutes, and I was happy. But today I noticed that "app-office/libreoffice-bin" only provides some sort of light version without PDF support, while I had compiled package "app-office/libreoffice" with (among other things) USE flag "pdfimport". Back to three hours build time? Or is there some overlay out there pro- viding a more complete "app-office/libreoffice-bin" package? Any pointers welcome :-) Sincerely, Rainer
