On Saturday, 1 October 2022 19:32:11 BST Daniel Sonck wrote:

On zaterdag 1 oktober 2022 19:11:19 CEST Wol wrote:

On 01/10/2022 17:56, Michael wrote:

Anyway, I ventured into pipewire because I wanted to see if Skype would work without pulseaudio and in this system it won't. After I manually installed pipewire Skype won't access the microphone. 🙁

I've got some vague feeling that pipewire is designed to happily sit
under pulseaudio. The design aim was to replace both Jack and pulseaudio but it basically just presents a sound device to the layers above, so
just like you can stack block devices for disk access, you can stack
jack, pulseaudio and pipewire for sound.

Well, it is actually designed as a drop-in replacement and won't present audio devices in the sense pulseaudio wants to receive it. I guess it would theoretically be possible to use pulseaudio's jack sink to talk to
pipewire, but pipewire has the full pulseaudio interface for pulseaudio applications.

At the moment only some applications support PipeWire's native API, but most support PulseAudio's API. When you come across an application like Skype which expects PulseAudio, the solution is to enable USE="sound-server pipewire-alsa" for PipeWire and in addition to PipeWire also install media- libs/libpulse. No other PulseAudio packages are needed.

Thereafter an application requiring PulseAudio uses PipeWire, the latter emulating PulseAudio's server by using PulseAudio's API via libpulse.

I applied the above and now the microphone in Skype works again. I assume the same applies to other PulseAudio friendly applications, which won't play nicely with PipeWire only. I suppose at some point PulseAudio will be completely replaced by PipeWire and applications will update their code accordingly.
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