So let’s talk about this Wayland thing(pointieststick.com)

posted 1 year ago

Vincent@kbin.social

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Wayland. It comes up a lot: “Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session.” “The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y.” And it’s in the news quite …

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thalience@lemmy.world

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1 year ago

Pioewire handles audio and video pipelines between applications.

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uis@lemmy.world

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1 year ago

So why Wayland instead of pipewire at all?

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Ullebe1@lemmy.ml

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1 year ago

Because Pipewire only handles and understands media streams, so it can stream the output of a window or the whole desktop, but only because the Wayland compositor has already composed the windows and other data it gets from the application to a visual and hands the final result to Pipewire.

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uis@lemmy.world

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1 year ago

Which goes back to oroginal question. Why pipewire if there are already wayland extensions?

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Ullebe1@lemmy.ml

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1 year ago

Because it is convenient for programs to use Pipewire for screensharing, as those programs can then also use the same Pipewire support for all their audio and webcam needs. Also Pipewire is good at multiplexing the various media streams.

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uis@lemmy.world

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1 year ago

And what developers will hammer their apps to one sound server implementation? What is convenient here? Loosing interoperability? You always can use Wayland for screensharing, ALSA for sound and V4L2 for webcam.

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Ullebe1@lemmy.ml

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1 year ago

For the multiplexing, as I mentioned.

A V4L2 camera can only be opened by a single application at a time, but if that application is Pipewire, then Pipewire can allow multiple applications to make use of it simultaneously. Same thing with ALSA, it’s the reason sound servers exist at all, though I suspect you’re already familiar with that.

I also hear that ALSA has some support for multiple applications per device nowadays, though I understand it is much less pleasant to use than a fully featured sound server.

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