Pipewire vs PulseAudio, general question
What are the main differences between pipewire and pulseaudio? Which one is better? What are other alternative popular sound servers besides these two?
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What are the main differences between pipewire and pulseaudio? Which one is better? What are other alternative popular sound servers besides these two?
I’m assuming it’s a complaint about how low level ALSA is compared to the, E.G. Audio HAL in Android
Well, being low level is exactly what lets to extract better performance, lower latency and other good stuff.
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
People here also are asking for super low-latency
That’s another nice thing about PipeWire.
It supports configuring JACK for you if you need low latency
One person above(Audbol) want to go even lower.
You lost track of the conversation. That was about ALSA