Re: pipewire config
Hi Sam,
The only real reason why I even tried playing with pipewire at all is I thought maybe connecting back to the host over jack may prove to be better performing than virtualized audio hardware. Does anyone have thoughts about that?
You've got me wondering if I should look at emacspeak on macos. I'd like to not have to carry a second machine around to have a screen reader that works in a terminal, which Voiceover just does so horribly at. Unfortunately, getting anything running on these new arm64 macs is difficult.
Any ideas for me?
Thanks everyone.
--FC
On Mar 3, 2023, at 11:35, Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> wrote:
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> I'm not seeing a lot of discussion of pipewire as a system service. I
> don't know if that's going to work; you would need to convince it to
> attach to the system bus rather than the session dbus, and you'd need to
> convince it to look for its server on the system dbus rather than
> session dbus for clients.
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> It may support that.
> A quick google search didn't yield good discussions of that.
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> But I did find discussion on the arch wiki of using pipewire with alsa
> dmix devices. That will allow you to have pipewire running for multiple
> users at once. Your audio quality will suffer over what you would get
> with one pipewire instance, but it would for example allow you to use
> espeakup as root/kernel and pipewire as user all at the same time.
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> I've never done this.
> I just run pipewire as user and deal without espeakup.
> Right now I'm using emacspeak for console applications, although I've
> been meaning to look into brltty under gnome-terminal or similar.
>
> Anyway take a look at 3.1.8 on
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire
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