PipeWire issues with <= 0.3.24

[Garrett LeSage]

Hi all,

Several weeks ago, while running Fedora 34 pre-beta, I had a bunch of PipeWire issues preventing me from successfully doing video conferences and listening to music. I reported the issues upstream. The problems included using Bluetooth headphones (at all), codecs for the headphones, switching outputs, and issues when doing video calls. It was a mess, multiple times a day.

I'm happy to say they were all fixed with the latest release of pipewire-0.3.25-1.fc34 and my system has been mostly problem-free with audio since upgrading.

However, after two weeks, this bugfix version is still in testing... and doesn't like it will make it for Fedora 34 at this moment:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-46a2394c6d

I hope all these fixes will make it in time for the release. It'd be awful if people would associate PipeWire (and Fedora 34) with broken audio (like so many did for PulseAudio), as it's awesome and actually works very well as of 0.3.25.

Could we make this a blocker, so that this newer version (0.3.15) will be included in the release?

Thanks,
Garrett

[Geraldo Simião Kutz]

Hi, great to hear that problem is solved.

Maybe it's just a FinalFE not necessary a blocker.

Regards
Geraldo
geraldosimao

Em seg, 19 de abr de 2021 11:23, Garrett LeSage 
escreveu:
> Hi all,
>
> Several weeks ago, while running Fedora 34 pre-beta, I had a bunch of
> PipeWire issues preventing me from successfully doing video conferences and
> listening to music. I reported the issues upstream. The problems included
> using Bluetooth headphones (at all), codecs for the headphones, switching
> outputs, and issues when doing video calls. It was a mess, multiple times a
> day.
>
> I'm happy to say they were all fixed with the latest release of
> pipewire-0.3.25-1.fc34 and my system has been mostly problem-free with
> audio since upgrading.
>
> However, after two weeks, this bugfix version is still in testing... and
> doesn't like it will make it for Fedora 34 at this moment:
> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-46a2394c6d
>
> I hope all these fixes will make it in time for the release. It'd be awful
> if people would associate PipeWire (and Fedora 34) with broken audio (like
> so many did for PulseAudio), as it's awesome and actually works very well
> as of 0.3.25.
>
> Could we make this a blocker, so that this newer version (0.3.15) will be
> included in the release?
>
> Thanks,
> Garrett
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[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 02:22:38PM -0000, Garrett LeSage wrote:
> Could we make this a blocker, so that this newer version (0.3.15) will be
> included in the release?

You can nominate this as a blocker or freeze exception --

https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/propose_bug

is the interface for doing this.

[Ben Cotton]

There wasn't an applicable bug open that I could find, so I created
one (BZ 1951072) and nominated it as a blocker so we can discuss it at
the Blocker Review meeting in ~75 minutes.

[Garry T. Williams]

On Monday, April 19, 2021 10:22:38 AM EDT Garrett LeSage wrote:
> Several weeks ago, while running Fedora 34 pre-beta, I had a bunch
> of PipeWire issues preventing me from successfully doing video
> conferences and listening to music. I reported the issues upstream.
> The problems included using Bluetooth headphones (at all), codecs
> for the headphones, switching outputs, and issues when doing video
> calls. It was a mess, multiple times a day.
>
> I'm happy to say they were all fixed with the latest release of
> pipewire-0.3.25-1.fc34 and my system has been mostly problem-free
> with audio since upgrading.
>
> However, after two weeks, this bugfix version is still in testing...
> and doesn't like it will make it for Fedora 34 at this moment:
> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-46a2394c6d

I just gave karma for this update (pipewire-0.3.25-1.fc34.x86_64), so
maybe that will help.  I am pleased to report that it eliminated a
very annoying latency with bluetooth and pulseaudio that I have had
for years.