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make PIPEWIRE opt-in
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as mentioned in https://github.com/umlaeute/Gem/issues/471#issuecomment-2736587428, the videoPIPEWIRE plugin often hangs Pd/Gem.
for the time being, I think it should be opt-in (requiring an explicit --with-pipewire at the configure stage), rather than opt-out.
By "configure stage" do you mean when running ./configure before compiling?
Wouldn't it be better to be able to enable/disable it at runtime somehow? Is that not doable?
By "configure stage" do you mean when running
./configurebefore compiling?
yes.
Wouldn't it be better to be able to enable/disable it at runtime somehow? Is that not doable?
sure it is.
the easies is to just remove the gem_videoPIPEWIRE.so file, or not install it in the first place (e.g. in Debian there are a number of gem-video-* packages for the various backends.
we could also use Gem's settings system...but the main problem is that this is just too complicated to do from a user POV (and I don't think i would like to write a preferences system that hooks into the Pd prefs just now, to allow people to configure such things in a manner they understand).
(Gem settings have been around since 2009; i don't think anybody - including my - is using them)
so in this issue, i'm simply talking about disabling experimental code by default, so it doesn't get in the way when trying to debug other things (like #471)
there's also some other backends that should be opt-in, like gemglutwindow.