Re: ALSA kernel projects - for academic purposes

Ricard Wanderlof
2021-10-01T08:54:51Z

On Wed, 29 Sep 2021, Ruben Safir wrote:

> > also, theres now pipewire, which is new, and all the buzz.
> > its apparently the future of linux audio
>
> BTW - we hear the BS every month, and yet, ALSA is still here and the
> backbone of Linux sound...

PipeWire is not really a replacement for ALSA, if by ALSA mean the Linux
kernel audio subsystem, as it still needs to access audio hardware via
ALSA kernel drivers.

If we include alsa-lib in ALSA, then, with proper configuration, not
really out of the box, PipeWire can replace the plugin hierarchy that is
normally set up in /etc/asound.conf etc.

But PipeWire is purely userspace, and is really more of a replacement for
JACK and PulseAudio at the same time. It does seem to be the future in the
sense that although it's still in development, it's here now, and it works
out of the box at least in some distributions.

/Ricard
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