PipeWire Audio Backend Comes To QEMU

[phoronix]

Phoronix: PipeWire Audio Backend Comes To QEMU

Adding to the list of features coming with QEMU 8.1 is now having a native PipeWire audio back-end...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/QEMU-8.1-Adds-PipeWire

[Anux]

So this is basically an alternative for -audiodev pa?

[scottishduck]

Will be good to see apps gradually migrate to pipewire so we can ditch pulseaudio once and for all.

[Monsterovich]

Will be good to see apps gradually migrate to pipewire so we can ditch pulseaudio once and for all.

Pipewire is now Pulseaudio. I mean, the compatibility is somewhere around 95%. What's the point of supporting pipewire when it already works through libpulse?

[Kjell]

Pipewire is now Pulseaudio. I mean, the compatibility is somewhere around 95%. What's the point of supporting pipewire when it already works through libpulse?

Newer API.

[Quackdoc]

this makes me very happy, jack is good, but it's a bit of a pain to use. pulse is not very flexible, and the preformance of it is very lack luster. time to edit docs

[RahulSundaram]

Pipewire is now Pulseaudio. I mean, the compatibility is somewhere around 95%. What's the point of supporting pipewire when it already works through libpulse?

If PipeWire is merely acting in PulseAudio compatibility mode, it can only support the features that PulseAudio already has. Using PipeWire directly instead allows applications to take advantage of any current and future PipeWire native features instead of being limited by the features exposed by baseline compatibility shims.

[NSLW]

This Fedora background looks really nice.

[Monsterovich]

If PipeWire is merely acting in PulseAudio compatibility mode, it can only support the features that PulseAudio already has. Using PipeWire directly instead allows applications to take advantage of any current and future PipeWire native features instead of being limited by the features exposed by baseline compatibility shims.

I don't see the need for a new client library for applications. Besides, what kind of features do regular apps need? If we are talking about music applications (DAWs, etc.), then there is libjack for that, which pipewire can do as well.

[RahulSundaram]

I don't see the need for a new client library for applications. Besides, what kind of features do regular apps need? If we are talking about music applications (DAWs, etc.), then there is libjack for that, which pipewire can do as well.

One of the big reasons for PipeWire is support for desktop portals for sandboxed applications.