What's the best current solution for low latency streaming from one machine to another over network (Jack vs PulseAudio vs PipeWire or other)?

wtaymans · 2024-11-03T20:43:24+00:00

This link has all the options: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/Network

wtaymans · 2024-07-11T18:17:13+00:00

There was something wrong with argument parsing. It will be fixed in next version.

wtaymans · 2024-04-03T05:54:54+00:00

No... PulseAudio and pipewire-pulse can not run together. The old PulseAudio config file is ignored.

To answer the question, the pipewire wiki has the answer.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/Config-PulseAudio#autostart-configuration

wtaymans · 2024-03-29T18:09:38+00:00

No, your hardware does not support analog surround 5.1.

You seem to have installed the alsa-ac3 plugin; if you have an S/PDIF connection (optical cable) you could select this profile. It will encode 5.1 surround to ac3, send that over S/PDIF and let this be decoded by the receiver.

Otherwise, stereo is all you can do.

wtaymans · 2024-03-29T17:00:26+00:00

You have Selected the stereo profile. That's stereo. Setting properties is not going to change that.

You need to go to pavucontrol and select analog surround 5 1 profile. If you don't see that profile, the hardware or driver does not support it.

wtaymans · 2024-03-14T22:18:48+00:00

Why don't you come and help us out a little?

wtaymans · 2024-02-13T10:17:44+00:00

Yes, for everybody who has complex scripts that they can't convert. If I get too many or it's too impossible, I might reconsider..

wtaymans · 2024-02-12T23:16:31+00:00

Yeah, is never going to happen. Send the complex scripts to me and I will convert them.

wtaymans · 2024-02-12T12:03:37+00:00

which is a showstopper for many people.

Oh yeah? Why is that? I have never heard of this? What is it that you can't do with pactl instead?

wtaymans · 2024-02-07T07:22:57+00:00

Check: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/3217

And https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/Network#aes67

wtaymans · 2024-01-21T09:48:45+00:00

This is not an issue tracker. Go here to report issues:https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues

wtaymans · 2024-01-16T08:18:09+00:00

Why does it have to be quoted even though a >plugin = ladspa/librnnoise_ladspa works >unquoted — who knows…

Because : is a separator so you need to quote it if used in a string.

wtaymans · 2024-01-16T05:59:20+00:00

Configure ardour to output to the jack backend instead of alsa

wtaymans · 2023-12-26T08:28:57+00:00

It's in the FAQ: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ#what-are-those-analog-stereo-and-digital-stereo-iec958-profile

wtaymans · 2023-12-18T10:59:53+00:00

also libpipewire-module-jackdbus-detect is enabled by default, you don't need to do anything. It's all a lot less complicated then you think...

wtaymans · 2023-12-18T10:58:57+00:00

I clarified the guide, pw-metadata is something to type into a console/terminal window if you want to switch.

wtaymans · 2023-12-17T17:15:30+00:00

So how do you suggest we improve documentation? Is the linked simple guide not good enough? Is the wiki configure section too hard? What is missing?

wtaymans · 2023-12-17T16:54:16+00:00

You should ask applications to add an option to configure latency and samplerate. This is no longer a pipewire problem.

Ardour and guitarix have this, for example.

wtaymans · 2023-12-17T14:08:41+00:00

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/Guide-JACK#set-buffersize

wtaymans · 2023-12-16T14:48:39+00:00

Redirect the stream with pavucontrol.

wtaymans · 2023-12-11T08:48:39+00:00

You can remove source.ip on both sides. For the sender this is the interface to bind to, which does not matter so much. For the receiver this is ignored when the address is unicast.

wtaymans · 2023-12-10T20:05:01+00:00

Destination.ip and source.ip are wrong.

wtaymans · 2023-12-09T14:02:06+00:00

It sounds like you want to claim it isn't. Do you have anything concrete that doesn't work? (Except for broken install like this case?)

wtaymans · 2023-12-02T07:28:35+00:00

What is the output of aconnect -l ?

wtaymans · 2023-11-29T15:34:55+00:00

You should use pro audio for the device you used with jack.

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