Is it possible to use pipewire instead of pulseaudio in Chimaera?

Check this https://wiki.debian.org/PipeWire

In short-This is not a supported scenario for Debian 11, and is considered experimental. It may break certain applications, lack certain functionality, or not work at all.

Yeah, it looks like a better solution than pulseaudio. But again is Redhat making a big monolithic system. Video and audio in one solution. To me it does not look as the best solution. But lets see how things goes when pipewire matures.

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It is currently only possible to start pipewire manually in every session.

and that is a non issue, since i use a window manager i already start pulse on .xprofile

! pidof pulseaudio >/dev/null &&
setsid -f pulseaudio --start >/dev/null 2>&1 &

i'm waiting on the pipewire documentation so that i can either add pipewire support to the volume module i have on my bar or write a new one targeting pipewire

as despite the fact that is a redhat project it seems to be better than pulse with the promise of reduced latency and jack integration it means no longer there's a need for messing with the awful pulse loopbacks and instead audiostreams can be managed on a jack patchbay

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree … re.desktop

No, the PipeWire creator & main developer is Win Taymans. EDIT: although they do work for Red Hat :-)

It is currently only possible to start pipewire manually in every session. Their scripts is currently depending on systemd. So I think a no go currently on devuan. And the main developer is the same who invented the pulseaudio crap. So I am suspicious to pipewire. It might develop a new systemd on the multimedia front.

You might have a look on the situation on gentoo: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PipeWire

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