Compiling Receiver on Fedora 34 with pipewire

[ShrirajHegde]

Receiver doesn't seem to work on fedora 34 with pipewire. Is there any way to get it working? if yes, how?

[duncanthrax]

I have never seen pipewire, but I would guess it is runtime-compatible with pulseaudio. Meaning, you'll have to have pulseaudio development packages to build the receiver, but you can then run the receiver against pipewire.

[ShrirajHegde]

yeah, pulse audio-dependent programs are supposed to be compatible with pipe wire, I have installed the guest driver. When I run the client on the host machine, I hear no audio, I have tried providing virbr0, virbr1 as bridges for NAT.

When run on the terminal, I get :

    Using ALSA/PulseAudio output
    Starting multicast receiver

but same when run as systemd service gives error snd_pcm_open: Host is down.

I saw people using it on youtube and it worked right after installing the driver without any extra effort. I am yet to try it on ubuntu(with same VM) and then I can confirm

[duncanthrax]

snd_pcm_open

This looks like something can't open ALSA.

[ghost]

Running into similar issues on fc34.

$ ./scream -o alsa -i virbr0
snd_pcm_open: Host is down

$ ./scream -o pulse -i virbr0
Unable to connect to PulseAudio. Connection refused

$ sudo getenforce
Permissive

I attempted compiling with jack, but the files were not included despite cmake finding the lib.

Have not really run into any other issues with pipewire.

[ShrirajHegde]

Have not really run into any other issues with pipewire.

Same

[ghost]

My issue turned out to be a temporary fluke where somehow half my environment, including dbus session went missing.