PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus

Posted Mar 4, 2021 4:52 UTC (Thu) by jeltz (guest, #88600)
In reply to: PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus by dezgeg
Parent article: PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus

I still have to solve audio problems by killing PuleAudio (last time I did it was about 2 weeks ago), and as far as I know it coul always be done without superuser privileges. I am one of the minority who never have experienced PulseAudio becoming stable, it is better than ti was when I first used it but still quite unstable.

PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus

Posted Mar 5, 2021 0:06 UTC (Fri) by hailfinger (subscriber, #76962) [Link] (1 responses)

Killing/restarting pulseaudio (pulseaudio -k) after a suspend-to-RAM is required and sufficient to get my USB webcam microphone working again in ~90% of my suspend cycles. That's a few times per day. I didn't bother reporting that because I've seen too many pulseaudio bug reports being dismissed along the lines of "pulseaudio is never buggy, it's the fault of your driver/application/whatever".

PipeWire seems to care about not breaking existing setups and the article implies that the community is nice. I'm happy about that and look forward to testing it.

PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus

Posted Mar 5, 2021 5:56 UTC (Fri) by zdzichu (guest, #17118) [Link]

Not to defend PA, but it really smells like USB microphone driver problem. It seem not to handle suspend/resume cycle (while device is opened?).
If you do not report bugs, they won't be fixed. And you will have the same problem with pipewire.