[LAD] Re: Status of Pipewire

On Sat, 18 Mar 2023, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:

> On 2/8/23 17:06, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
>> 
>> pipewire is simply a disaster under a PREEMPT_RT kernel, while jack excels 
>> with flying colors :)
>> 
>
> have to retract the above: recent 6.3-rcX-rtY (preempt_rt) kernel patches are 
> doing quite well here on both accounts, pipewire-jack and genuine 
> jackd(bus)...
>
> if things keep this way, hopefully the switch to pipewire-jack might just 
> happen  permanently one of these coming months ;)

Not for me, the ALSA firewire module limits me to at least 256/2 latency 
as compaired to 16/2 with jack (3 days straight no xruns). PipeWire will 
never support jack backends like ffado. It does not seem ALSA FW will ever 
be better than just barely working. Buying a USB box to replace what I 
have, aside from being more than I can afford right now, aside from being 
a waste of a perfectly good unit, Just irks me that I should spend good 
money for something that would work less well than what I already have.

Having said that, PipeWire does work well for most people (I have not had 
freewheel work for me yet) and I think it is much better than pulse or 
pulse/jack. For most of my work, I can run PW for everything just fine but 
using my computer as an effects box/softsynth still needs jack.


--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
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