Add a new pulse.zeroramp.gap property that will enable gap detection and
fade-in/fade-out on gaps on playback streams.
Make a rule to enable this on chrome, which does not do a cork/pause
when a stream is paused but sends out silence. With the gap detection
enabled, this allows the audioconvert to perform fades to avoid pops and
clocks from sudden DC changes at the gaps.
Fixes#4745
Make a new zeroramp.duration and zeroramp.gap property on audioconver.
It detects N samples of silence before triggering a fade-in or fade-out
of the given zeroramp.duration.
The zeroramp.duration is by default 5ms and zeroramp.gap is set to 0.
When the zeroramp.gap is set to 0, the audioconver will not do any gap
detection but it will only do fade-out from the last sample when the IO
Buffer area is removed from a port.
This by default makes the audio adapter perform a fade-out when the last
input of the port mixer was removed and the mixer is no longer scheduled
and the IO Area removed from the audioconverter input port.
Pass the zeroramp.duration property from the node to the port and then
to the mixer so that it can be configured.
Add the zeroramp.duration to the docs.
Thse should not be portal clients and can go directly to rtkit.
The reason is that there is a locking problem in the portal rt
implementation that cause timeouts for some reason.
It's a terrible idea, doesn't work so well (locks up the data-loop when
read is blocked) and a security mightmare. If you really need to pipe
samples through some program, do that somewhere else, like from the
command line with pw-cat and pw-record.
Normally, when loading a plugin feature, often a library.name property
is given as well. If the feature to load is not explicitly listed in
context.spa-libs, the library.name is used a fallback library.
Add an option to ignore this library.name and only use the
context.spa-libs entries. This makes it possible to only load explicitly
listed features in the config file and makes it possible to lock down
what plugins can be loaded.
Set the option to true by default for now, which keeps the existing
behaviour of using the fallback library. Add some more entries to the
context.spa-libs in case the option is switched off to make things
work.
Set the option to false for the minimal.conf.
Add a special 'blocked' spa-libs value that returns EPERM when trying to
load the factory.
Only allow loading the LADSPA filter.graph nodes for the LADSPA sink and
source. The most problematic part is the pipe filter, that allows it to
spawn arbirary programs as part of the filter.graph.
You can add a filter-graph to any stream with stream_props.
There was no limit on the total size of the sample cache. A client
could upload many samples to exhaust server memory. Add a configurable
pulse.max-sample-cache property (default 64MB) to cap the total size
of all cached samples.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
There was no limit on the number of streams a single client could
create. Each stream allocates a 4MB ring buffer, allowing a malicious
client to exhaust server memory. Add a configurable pulse.max-streams
property (default 64) to limit streams per client.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add support for rlimit.<resource> = <value> in the context.properties to
adjust the rlimits of the process. A value of -1 sets the max limit.
This can be used to increase the number of file descriptors in a
pipewire process when select() is not used, for example. Other resource
limits might be interesting as well maybe.
Fixes#4047
So that a config override can disable the execution of the command by
setting the property to false in the pulse.properties config override.
Expose some conf.c method for this purpose.
Add pw_conf_section_update_props_rules() that will not only update the
properties of a section but wil also apply rules in section.rules and
match against the context properties.
Use this by default when using pw_context_conf_update_props().
Add a new method to get a string name of the VM type. Place the
cpu.vm.name in the context properties.
This makes it possible to deprecate the vm.overrides with something more
flexible based on rules. Update the conf files and docs to refect this.
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 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.
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>
Add a new config section that can contain a set of commands to run after
starting.
There is only load-module available now but it can be used to remove the
dependency on pactl when starting the server.
Only enable pulse.idle.timeout for selected applications
(speech-dispatcher) and let other applications be. We can also
lower the minreq and min-quantum of speech-dispatcher now.
Fixes#2880
When a client is not sending any data when it should be and causes an
underrun, mark it as idle and record the timestamp.
When a client is idle for pulse.idle.timeout seconds, set the stream
as inactive. When more data is received, set it back to active.
Add a pulse.idle.timeout option to set a global server default or
a per-stream value. Set the server default to 5 seconds. A value of 0
can be used to disable this feature.
With this change, badly behaving clients that are not sending any data
will be paused so that the sinks can suspend to save battery power.
Fixes#2839
Rename empty.noise -> dither.noise and always add this amount of noise
when > 0. This also adds the noise to silent sounds, not only when
nothing is connected because that would also be a problem when an amp
needs to be kept alive with an non-0 signal.
Rename noise -> dither because we can use this also for dithering later.
See #705
Increase the FC filter frequency to 12KHz for better dialogs. This
filter is only applied when making the FC from FRONT channels so that
we keep the high frequency signal on the FRONT mostly.
Increase LFE filter frequency to make slightly more bass.
Disable widen filter by default.
Update config files with the correct defaults.
Add a property to select the upmix method. PSD is enabled by default
but a new simple upmixing algorithm is available that duplicates
channels and avoids lowpass filter on the FC and disables widening.
Fixes#861
Add an option to do a hilbert transform on the generated rear channels
to do a 90 degree pahse shift on them. This can improve spacialization
of the rear channels.
See #861
Add a module for a fallback dummy sink, which appears dynamically when
no other sinks are present.
Enable it for pipewire-pulse, because Pulseaudio will also show
dynamically a dummy sink.
Make the default nice.level an invalid value, that is not configured
as the priority on a process.
Explicitly enable a nice level on our daemon processes.
Fixes#2034
