What are the main differences between pipewire and pulseaudio? Which one is better? What are other alternative popular sound servers besides these two?

  • @ozymandias117
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    11 year ago

    I’m assuming it’s a complaint about how low level ALSA is compared to the, E.G. Audio HAL in Android

    • @uis
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      11 year ago

      Well, being low level is exactly what lets to extract better performance, lower latency and other good stuff.

      • @ozymandias117
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        11 year ago

        There’s still a fine line to draw between usability and performance

        ALSA is too low level for musicians to reasonably understand

        Having something like PipeWire to make it easier to configure isn’t a bad thing

        • @uis
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          11 year ago

          People here also are asking for super low-latency

          • @ozymandias117
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            11 year ago

            That’s another nice thing about PipeWire.

            It supports configuring JACK for you if you need low latency

            • @uis
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              11 year ago

              One person above(Audbol) want to go even lower.

              • @ozymandias117
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                11 year ago

                You lost track of the conversation. That was about ALSA