can’t seem to play local videos from vlc
Oh this one’s stupid on CachyOS, regarding Ardour. With Ardour (the latest versions I tested), I was unable to place down a MIDI region due to a Pipewire regression. I told my producer, Neigsendoig, about it, and he tested it. Same exact nonsense. This was reported to the Ardour forums to see what can be done about it.
I was able to fix this by switching to lts kernal, temporarily.
Tell us more about your set up, are you on a laptop or do you have an external usb Audio device?
Laptop no external usb audio device
Do this:
sudo systemctl --user enable pipewire
I would highly recommend installing qpwgraph. It’ll give you a visual patchbay, which will give you a better idea of what applications are exposing audio outs to pipe wire, as well as where those outs are being routed.
I installed it but I don’t understand how it’s going to help me troubleshoot “pipewire-alsa” I assume
I use it to make sure that:
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The application that should be making sound is showing up in the patch bay. If it’s not, that application probably needs its audio output settings tweaked
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The application is being routed correctly. I have multiple audio outs, and pipe wire allows for different applications to go to different outs simultaneously. The patch bay is an easy and quick way to check that config.
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If you’re on ubuntu-based distro, install the ubudustudio package for pipewire that seems to fix a few things differently than other distros.
not on ubuntu I’m on endevor, ty though
