it's amazing how rapid the development of pipewire into a "usable state" so that distro quickly put it as drop in replacement for "matured" pulseaudio
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Pipewire devs are real Chads.
I love pipewire for my audio.
True, and it's fabulous for video as well.
Ow you are right. I wasn't aware of the video part of Pipewire. Which allows very low latency video recording as well.
Fun fact: with the proper plugins, you can capture both the video and the output of a particular window / process in OBS, giving you a stream of exactly that and nothing else (which you can then mix with other sources). Very handy for streaming if you don't want to include voice chat (for privacy reasons) or background music (DMCA takedown on VODs).
However, for capturing Vulkan games, I recommend the vkcapture plugin. It acts as a Vulkan layer and is very performant, plus I get the impression it works better with Freesync.
I hate OBS under Linux still doesn't allow me to use the GPU (using AMD videocard) for encoding.
Don't blame OBS, AMD's video encoding is awful in a multitude of ways
owh..? I was hoping it was open-source. Some standard API. or something...
As someone said, there are ways to get it working in OBS.
Does it expose the full feature set using VA-API? I have no clue. I was never able to actually hit the bitrate I wanted.
Please note that cards until the RX 6000 generation do not support B-frames.
AMD's encoders are garbage, but if you insist, you can use VA-API to get accelerated encoding in the output advanced settings.
There's a lot of love for it here, so I guess my experience isn't typical. I updated to Ubuntu Lunar Lobster on my home media machine, which comes with PipeWire by default, and it's utter shit. The vocals and some instruments in my music tracks only play nearly inaudibly from the center channel of my 5.1 surround system. It's unlistenable, even with the center volume boosted.
Seriously, what am I missing? How can it do audio that poorly?
I've never had a multi-channel setup to experience configuring it, but I am sure there must be guidance out there. In my own experience PW improved my Linux audio experience quite a bit by resolving some issues I had with glitchy audio on my DAC and audio latency that was noticeable in some games.