Ubuntu
pipewire package

  1. Bug #1802533
  2. Comment #36

Comment 36 for bug 1802533

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Be (be.ing) wrote :

Hi, I am a maintainer of a low latency audio application, Mixxx. I misunderstood the prior discussion on this issue and thought that Ubuntu 21.04 would be shipping with PipeWire by default for audio. However I tested 21.04 beta in a VM and pipewire and pulseaudio are both running by default. It seems that PulseAudio is still used by default and PipeWire is only used for video on Ubuntu currently. Is that correct?

It seems there is no easy way for Ubuntu users to replace PulseAudio or JACK with PipeWire. I found this page on the Debian wiki:
https://wiki.debian.org/PipeWire#Using_as_a_substitute_for_PulseAudio.2FJACK.2FALSA
but I'm unclear if it's easy for Ubuntu users to prevent the PulseAudio daemon from running so PipeWire can take its place.

Are you planning to use PipeWire for audio by default by the 22.04 LTS release? I really hope by that by that time we can ship a Flatpak and have it just work by default on every common distro.