Andreas Pehn Sloth

Sessions

• Pipewire

  The How, What and Why of Audio on (Embedded) Linux
  15:00 - 15:50 UTC | Wednesday 13th November 2024 | Bristol 1
  Intermediate

  Understanding the audio ecosystem on Linux is not straight-forward. Alsa, who? Pulse-audio, what? And what is this Pipewire everyone keeps talking about? In this presentation, we want to provide a brief overview of the audio subsystem on Linux, looking at libraries provided by the kernel and how to work with it when writing user-space applications. Our goal is to clarify some of the confusion around the different libraries and tools and empower people to embrace the ecosystem instead of being intimidated by it. Lastly, we would like to give a hands-on introduction to Pipewire, a new audio server shipped in […]