node.sync-group can contain a list of strings. When a node in the graph
sets node.sync = true, it will be scheduled with all of the other nodes with
common node.sync-group strings. By default all nodes are placed in
group.sync.0 except the freewheel and dummy driver.
Use this to ensure that all nodes are grouped under the same driver
(that is not the freewheel and dummy driver) as soon as the transport is
started so that the transport is visible to all nodes from the same
sync-groups. We also don't deactive the sync-group anymore for the node,
even if the transport is stopped, to avoid driver changes and transport
jumps.
When the node that activated the sync/transport is destroyed, things are
restored to their original state. Note that this is different from JACK
where starting the transport outlives the application and always needs
to be explicitly stopped again. We can't really do this (by default) because
it leaves the graph in an unnatural state with all devices in sync.
The reason for the node.sync-group is that it is possible to still have N
different subgraphs with a separate transports by manually specifying
the node.sync-group.
It's also slightly different from the node.group, that is always active.
The sync-group is something you only want to enable in specific cases
because it groups drivers together and enables adaptive resampling etc.
It's also possible to place this option in the jack.conf file to
automatically sync all devices and apps as soon as a jack app is started.
Fixes#3850
Make a rtprio-server and rtprio-client option. Leave the server
priority by default to 88 but lower client priority to 83. JACK
does something similar by setting clients to rtprio-server - 5.
Make module-rt use the client priority by default and bump the server
priority explicitly in the config file.
Leave the pulse-server to the default rtprio-client, there is no reason
to lower this any further because it is really just a regular client.
Bump the ffado packetizer thread to rtprio-server + 5 because that is
also what JACK does.
88 is still much higher than the value of 60 that JACK uses in
Fedora but now this is at least configurable.
Add a new property that controls how connections between other ports are
handled. This can be used to block jack apps from connecting or
disconnecting port they don't own.
Move configuration of initial Params from the adapter to the node to
make it more generally useful.
Add the same device.param config to devices.
This makes it possible to configure the default settings statically
while creating the nodes and devices.
Make it possible to wrap nodes created by a device in a wrapper such
as adapter.
Update the minimal.conf to use udev to detect and configure devices and
nodes. Add a config switch to switch back to hardcoded config.
Variables enclosed with @ are replaced with the value of the variable.
The sink.name should remain @DEFAULT_SINK@.
Escape the enclosing @ to prevent substitution of DEFAULT_SINK with an
empty string while generating pipewire.conf.
Move some of the tracking code for the DLL to where it is used.
Add resync.ms (default 10) option at which we give up rate adjusting
and instead do a hard resync. This results in a jump in the position
of the graph clock.
Add extension support to modules. This is a list of extension commands
that can be performed on the module.
Remove the custom registry of extensions and make proper modules that
implement the extensions.
This is more in line with what pulseaudio does. The advantage is that the
modules actually show up in the module list and that we can use the
module user_data to implement the extension later.
It's better for PHC identification in multi-NIC systems. PHC numbering might be dependent on the probe order yet no bugs was observed. Still recommend this for more comfortable configuration.
Also added some guidance on what must be changed
As reported in #3217, PTP driver has to have the highest priority for packets to arrive in time
Everything connected to AES67 should be clocked by the Grandmaster clock
Remove group permission on the system manager socket so that restricted
clients cannot use it to get unrestricted access. It is assumed that the
session manager system service (wireplumber) is running as pipewire user
and will get access to the manager socket, while other clients are
members of the pipewire group and will only get access to the normal
socket.
Modern heterogenous multiprocessor systems rely increasingly on
scheduler hinting for efficiency gains and system optimisation.
This is especially true on embedded systems, where background
tasks such as audio daemons should be consigned to the most
power-efficient core in the system. Left to its own devices, the
Linux Completely Fair Scheduler tends to migrate Pipewire to
more performant cores, even when this is unnecessary.
Luckily, CFS can be told by a task to clamp its utilisation values.
Coupled with energy-aware scheduling, this allows the scheduler to
make better informed decisions about where tasks should be placed,
and what pstate to set for the CPU it is running on.
Enable the user to configure UCLAMP_MIN and UCLAMP_MAX values via
arguments to libpipewire-module-rt.
Signed-off-by: James Calligeros <jcalligeros99@gmail.com>
In JSON, the colon actually is used for assignment, but in spa_type_info
the colon is used as a separator. To properly parse and pass the
properties to the videotestsrc, the key has to be enclosed by quotation
marks to prevent splitting by the JSON parser.
Commit 9b29bcd4e8 ("conf: set description for test nodes") set the
description only for the minimal.conf and pipewire.conf and skipped the
pipewire-vulkan.conf.
Set the description for pipewire-vulkan.conf, too.
Add access.socket option, which sets PW_KEY_ACCESS based only on which
socket the client connected from.
Remove the executable-based permissions and all old options. Add
access.legacy=true option that enables the old default behavior. The
legacy mode cannot be used together with the socket-based access.
Emit warnings if any of the removed old options have been set.
Set pipewire.sec.flatpak=true for Flatpak applications.
The socket-based access ignores PW_KEY_CLIENT_ACCESS and the Flatpak
status when setting PW_KEY_ACCESS. Dealing with them becomes
responsibility of the session manager (or equivalent) which processes
the permission rules.
Make the default access.socket value compatible with the
module-protocol-native default two-socket configuration.
However, if neither access.socket or access.legacy is specified, we will
for now use the legacy mode for backward compatibility.
If no socket configuration specified for a server, create two sockets,
"CORENAME" and "CORENAME-manager" where CORENAME is the value computed
by get_server_name.
Add nofail flags to some filter-chain examples to avoid aborting on
startup and leaving the system in a silent state.
Add some more comments to guide people to change the paths to the
filters and config files where needed.
`wpctl status` shows the description of device nodes. Therefore, the
videotestsrc and audiotestsrc are listed as "(null)" if the example
configuration of the sources is used.
Set the description in the example for how to configure the audiotestsrc
and the videotestsrc.
