use case pipewire

[sniperlucian]

I see that you mention Fedora 35 which is running!? pipewire.

running manjaro with pipewire - pychromecast12 and get following error:

pulseaudio_dlna.pulseaudio CRITICAL Failed to load module "module-dbus-protocol"!

is here a chance to get it running with pipewire? if so - how? thx

[Cygn]

hello, it doesn't work under pipewire - Not on Fedora, nor anywhere. That's why this doesn't get any love...
check https://github.com/EvTheFuture/pulseaudio-dlna/tree/testing_with_pipewire for pipewire-compatible version.

[Cygn]

Keeping open in case someone else wonders.

[almereyda]

Upstream, this is

• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1127

Are there any plans to cooperate with @EvTheFuture for mainlining the PipeWire-related changes? What would be missing from that branch to be accepted here?

• master...EvTheFuture:pulseaudio-dlna:testing_with_pipewire

Questions for this use case will come up more often the more distributions switch to PipeWire by default.

• https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/cygn-pulseaudio-dlna/3488
• https://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/kein-ton-von-pulseaudio-dlna-nach-upgrade-auf-/

[EvTheFuture]

Are there any plans to cooperate with @EvTheFuture for mainlining the PipeWire-related changes? What would be missing from that branch to be accepted here?

I think it might be possible to solve this without having dependency on implementing a python to pipewire bridge like on my attempt.

Unfortunately I ran out of time to continue this experiment.

[AlexStorm1313]

I have been able to get my Sonos speakers working on a vanilla Fedora 38 installation without switching back to pulseaudio. All I had to do was loading the raop-discover module with this command pactl load-module module-raop-discover, after that my Sonos speakers show up as sound devices, granted it is a bit wonky example being that the devices are displayed twice and the volume only starts working when the slider is at ~50%. With my limited knowledge I believe it is still using pulseaudio but passes it through to pipewire. I'm not smart enough to write a clean implementation that fixes the mentioned above wonkieness, but theoretically speaking it might be as simple as loading the module by default.

[Cygn]

ROAP module uses Apple Airplay, not DLNA. If your device supports it, it's a viable alternative to this project.

[almereyda]

To confirm, the RAOP discovery module, configured with an example from the Arch forum, works nicely with the shairport-sync container.