Questions tagged [pipewire]
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The "Pro Audio" profile in PipeWire for audio devices / sound cards
After upgrading from PulseAudio to PipeWire my sound devices now feature the "Pro Audio" profile however I've Googled for it and haven't found anything interesting. You can find it by running PulseAudio Volume Control and see it under the…
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Audio issues under Fedora 35 with USB Audio Interface
I upgraded to Fedora 35 two days ago. At first, everything seemed to be working fine. But suddenly I had sound (and video) problems. Video was playing every 20 seconds one frame, audio not at all. After restarting everything seemed to be fine.
But…
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How do I permanently set bluetooth device as default in pipewire
I am running latest Pipewire and I have a Bluetooth headset connected to it.
What I'd like to achieve is that when I turn on my headset, all applications in the laptop start using the microphone profile that shows up in the device. Above all I am…
Alexandre Thenorio
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Failed to play sound: Invalid state
I'm running on Arch Linux with gnome and Pipewire.
I have the strange issue, that when I want to play sound I get the following error message:
(gnome-control-center:4636): sound-cc-panel-WARNING **: 12:13:50.653: Failed to play sound: Invalid…
bale
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No sound on firefox after debian update
I juste switched from Debian Bullseye to Debian testing. After rebooting, I found out that firefox could not output any sound from video (checked on youtube and twitter).
I checked some videos with Chromium, and I have no issue. MPV video playback…
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pipewire libcamera spa missing or broken
I just setup a new Arch Linux install on a custom build. I chose to use pipewire with wireplumber. But wireplumber is having some issues, and I can't figure out how to install what it's complaining about. The error I see when running systemctl…
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With pipewire: Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed br-connection-profile-unavailable
On Debian with Pipewire and WirePlumber, I'm getting,
[MX Ergo]# connect 8C:91:09:55:1A:CA
Attempting to connect to 8C:91:09:55:1A:CA
Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed br-connection-profile-unavailable
Previously with PulseAudio this…
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Sound stopped working after update from Fedora 35 to Fedora 36
This is the first time in my life I use Linux and it came with Fedora 35. After the laptop updated to Fedora 36, audio stopped working and I really have no idea what to do to fix it, as I mention I'm not very familiar with the OS, but I've tried…
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Disable Audio Source/Sink Module in Pipewire
In pulseaudio I use to be able to completely disable an audio device using something like:
pactl list short modules | grep -E "Logitech_BRIO|platform-skl"
pactl unload-module 15 # ID of device I wanted to disable
Which would prevent the device from…
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How do I disable audio sink suspend on idle using WirePlumber in Fedora 35 so that audio isn't delayed when starting playback?
In Fedora 35, WirePlumber has replaced pipewire-media-session as the audio session manager. There is a highly annoying problem with audio on many built-in soundcards on Linux where the audio sink is suspended after nothing is played for 3 seconds.…
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How to set audio device profile and route with PipeWire directly?
I understand that you could select a profile for an audio device using pactl set-card-profile CARD PROFILE. But pactl is a PulseAudio utility, meaning it adds an unnecessary layer and of course it requires you to install PulseAudio to some…
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How to record audio device with more than 2 channels using SoX?
I have multiple USB audio interfaces that each have 10, 18 or even 32 input channels. Mainly used to record every instrument of a band into a separate track.
I record in raw wav format (s32le @48kHz) which means I need crazy amounts of storage space…
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How to get static (snapshot of) pw-top?
I need to get a static output from pw-top, of pipewire, for a script I want to make. I really just need a list of pipewire devices.
For example, I want to be able to run pw-top | grep output and then do stuff to that. Basically, I want to get a list…
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paplay: --volume option does not take effect
I recently installed Fedora 36. I have a script that plays certain sound files.
The script was used under Ubuntu 20.04 before, showing the expected behaviour.
Inside the script, I use the following command:
paplay --volume=65536 -d…
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Upgrading to PipeWire: pipewire-session-manager.service already exists and is a symlink to /usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-media-session.service
From the Debian Testing Unstable wiki on upgrading to PipeWire when I run
systemctl --user --now enable wireplumber.service
I get,
Failed to enable unit: File ~/.config/systemd/user/pipewire-session-manager.service already exists and is a symlink…
Evan Carroll
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