PipeWire 0.3.62
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PipeWire 0.3.62
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#3Had no clue.
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#4Looks like video is getting a lot of work now.
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#5Stumbled into PipeWire few months ago when trying to setup Bluetooth headset on Ubuntu OS. It's superior to PulseAudio, but...
Really unbelievable to comprehend that Linux distros have such bad support for Bluetooth audio headsets - something very common in today's tech world. Android, Windows and Apple's OS all very efficiently switch from A2DP codec which is excellent for audio playback, but has no possibility for bidirectional communication (so you can't use your microphone) and HSP/HFP coded which provides worse sound, but you can talk. Linux doesn't have this fixed, there were some attempts [0], but nothing great came out of it.
[0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/18...
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#6Why post some random point release?
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#7Stumbled into PipeWire few months ago when trying to setup Bluetooth headset on Ubuntu OS. It's superior to PulseAudio, but... Really unbelievable to comprehend that Linux distros have such bad support for Bluetooth audio headsets - something very common in today's tech world. Android, Windows and Apple's OS all very efficiently switch from A2DP codec which is excellent for audio playback, but has no possibility for…
I'm actually confused; The past couple years, PulseAudio has been pretty good at switching between the two for me. Getting stuck in HSP isn't unique to Linux of course; it can happen if anything holds the mic open, there's reports of issues with both macOS and Windows too, for the same reason. Especially common with programs like Discord.
PulseAudio absolutely supports it with the Bluetooth module's auto_switch feature. I guess I'm not sure if Pipewire supports it, but it's likely handled by whatever is doing session management. I can only assume it's possible to configure Wireplumber to handle it if it doesn't have native support for it yet.
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#8Stumbled into PipeWire few months ago when trying to setup Bluetooth headset on Ubuntu OS. It's superior to PulseAudio, but... Really unbelievable to comprehend that Linux distros have such bad support for Bluetooth audio headsets - something very common in today's tech world. Android, Windows and Apple's OS all very efficiently switch from A2DP codec which is excellent for audio playback, but has no possibility for…
I'm actually confused; The past couple years, PulseAudio has been pretty good at switching between the two for me. Getting stuck in HSP isn't unique to Linux of course; it can happen if anything holds the mic open, there's reports of issues with both macOS and Windows too, for the same reason. Especially common with programs like Discord. PulseAudio absolutely supports it with the Bluetooth module's auto_switch featu…
Hm, not really sure about `auto_switch`, didn't dig deep enough to find it I guess. PulseAudio only offered HSF/HSP which sounded simply terrible. PipeWire's HSP sounds pretty good (mSBC codec), although it's still obviously worse than A2DP.
I'll have to look into auto switching and how to enable on either system.
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#9Stumbled into PipeWire few months ago when trying to setup Bluetooth headset on Ubuntu OS. It's superior to PulseAudio, but... Really unbelievable to comprehend that Linux distros have such bad support for Bluetooth audio headsets - something very common in today's tech world. Android, Windows and Apple's OS all very efficiently switch from A2DP codec which is excellent for audio playback, but has no possibility for…
Not sure if this is what you were pointing out here, so just in case: Pipewire does allow you to switch BT codecs including the ones which do better bidi quality. Including autoswitching if you want it to happen automatically https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Automatic_profile_... (you can switch manually as well)
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I'm actually confused; The past couple years, PulseAudio has been pretty good at switching between the two for me. Getting stuck in HSP isn't unique to Linux of course; it can happen if anything holds the mic open, there's reports of issues with both macOS and Windows too, for the same reason. Especially common with programs like Discord. PulseAudio absolutely supports it with the Bluetooth module's auto_switch featu…
Hm, not really sure about `auto_switch`, didn't dig deep enough to find it I guess. PulseAudio only offered HSF/HSP which sounded simply terrible. PipeWire's HSP sounds pretty good (mSBC codec), although it's still obviously worse than A2DP. I'll have to look into auto switching and how to enable on either system.
Are you saying that in pavucontrol, you see no A2DP modes at all? That's very strange, since all Bluetooth certified stuff should at least support A2DP SBC mode.
Out of the box, Pipewire should also be able to support LDAC and maybe AptX. PulseAudio can use Gstreamer to support additional codecs, so on PulseAudio with GStreamer 1.20+ you can get better A2DP coverage, assuming you have the right codec packages installed on your distro.
In general, Linux Bluetooth support has been a lot better as of late, to the point where I didn't need to mess with much, so most of what I know about it is actually older. (I used to use a third-party PulseAudio module to get better A2DP support for example, but when I looked it up, I found that it was deprecated in favor of just using newer GStreamer.)