libopenaptx VS pipewire-debian

AptX Low-Latency support is possible with a software update or software mod, source: https://github.com/pali/libopenaptx/issues/1

Background: I use Tumbleweed for audio recording/production among other general use cases. This lead me to manually switch to pipewire before it was made the default recently. During my research before making the switch I learned that the pipewire packaged in openSUSE does not support aptx and AAC bluetooth codecs because dependencies libopenaptx (https://github.com/pali/libopenaptx) and fdk-aac (https://github.com/mstorsjo/fdk-aac) are missing. I believe LDAC support works despite it sometimes being referred to as "nonfree" due to libldac being packaged with openSUSE, but I have not confirmed this. Support for aptx is important to me so I installed the version from packman which is compiled with support for these codecs. However, this got me wondering if it is possible to provide aptx and AAC in openSUSE without needing to install it through packman.

License change: https://github.com/pali/libopenaptx/commit/811bc18586d634042618d633727ac0281d4170b8

probably ... dunno for sure, since there is libopenaptx : https://github.com/pali/libopenaptx

I used this doc while setting up pipewire.

There is an open issue about that: https://github.com/pipewire-debian/pipewire-debian/issues/91. I am sure it will be update sooner or later.

Could also try some of these troubleshooting steps too if the above doesn't work: https://github.com/pipewire-debian/pipewire-debian/issues/8

See here - https://github.com/pipewire-debian/pipewire-debian/issues/47

If you must have sbc_xq, add this ppa and follow the instructions here, I can't verify the ppa but it is recommended to LTS users by other users, this is probably the easiest and only reliable way to get it on Mint.

vighnesh@AVITA:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream PipeWire 0.3.42 released. ===>>> (See Installation Instructions below) blueman : blueman-git 2.2.3-git-1 added Installation Instructions :- https://pipewire-debian.github.io Original Project Repo :- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire,                              https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/ Packaging Repo :- https://github.com/pipewire-debian/pipewire-debian Arch user here, but love PipeWire. I will be packaging for Upstream version of blueman-git & PipeWire (15days release cycle). The debian/ Code and all patches, Credit goes to Original Maintainers (usually from Debian): Utopia Maintenance Team Jeremy Bicha, Repo- https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/pipewire/ and Christopher Schramm repo- https://salsa.debian.org/cschramm/blueman. I will be doing this because of to keep sync with upstream to provide latest PipeWire and blueman whenever there is a version will be released on upstream. More info: https://launchpad.net/~pipewire-debian/+archive/ubuntu/pipewire-upstream Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it gpg: keybox '/tmp/tmp4gs3adqb/pubring.gpg' created gpg: /tmp/tmp4gs3adqb/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created gpg: key 25088A0359807596: public key "Launchpad PPA for SOURAV DAS" imported gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 Warning: apt-key is deprecated. Manage keyring files in trusted.gpg.d instead (see apt-key(8)). gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. vighnesh@AVITA:~$ sudo apt update Ign:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream/ubuntu jammy InRelease Hit:2 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease Hit:3 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports InRelease Hit:4 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable InRelease Get:6 http://security.debian.org bullseye-security InRelease [44.1 kB] Hit:7 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease Hit:8 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable InRelease Hit:9 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates InRelease Ign:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream/ubuntu jammy Release Ign:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages Get:14 http://security.debian.org bullseye-security/main Sources [75.8 kB] Get:15 http://security.debian.org bullseye-security/main amd64 Packages [102 kB] Ign:16 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream/ubuntu jammy/main i386 Packages Hit:5 https://q4os.org/q4repo q4os-4-0-cn InRelease Get:17 http://security.debian.org bullseye-security/main i386 Packages [102 kB] Hit:11 https://q4os.org/qtderepo bullseye InRelease Get:18 http://security.debian.org bullseye-security/main Translation-en [64.9 kB] Ign:19 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream/ubuntu jammy/main all Packages Get:12 https://q4os.org/qextrepo bullseye-libreoffice-cn InRelease [4,615 B] Ign:20 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream/ubuntu jammy/main Translation-en Ign:21 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream/ubuntu jammy/main Translation-en_IN Ign:22 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata Ign:23 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream/ubuntu jammy/main all DEP-11 Metadata Ign:24 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Hii.. I am the PPA owner of PipeWire (i.e. ppa:pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream). The full packaging project is on github (https://github.com/pipewire-debian/pipewire-debian). I did not get it what are you saying ? The official packages are 4 months old and since then pipewire has been improved a lot you know. My aim is to deliver the latest upstream release with improved packaging than what is debian maintainers are maintaining. Of course you can install those package from official repo but you have to compromise latest features, security, bug fixes, improvements, device compability etc.

I'll also say be careful with installing-uninstalling PipeWire as it's easy to lose track of packages, and some of the PipeWire packages aren't compatible with JACK without PipeWire present. (You can see my experience with this and a few related packages on this GitHub issue.)

I'm currently using pipewire on Ubuntu 18.04, but the glitch was also present in the previous pulseaudio (+ JACK) setup, so maybe it's caused by the underlying ALSA.