News: 0001614546

  ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

PipeWire 1.6 Released With Many New Features

([PipeWire] 30 Minutes Ago PipeWire 1.6)


PipeWire 1.6 is out today as the newest feature release for this software widely used by the Linux desktop for managing of audio and video streams while nicely integrating with sandboxed Flatpak apps and more.

PipeWire 1.6 retains API/ABI compatibility with PipeWire 1.4 while adding many new features. PipeWire 1.6 ships an LDAC decoder for Bluetooth, support for metadata features, the maximum channel count was increased to 128 by default, more HDR color types added, many Bluetooth updates, RTP updates, and a variety of other improvements.

PipeWire 1.6 also brings other channel improvements, safe parsing and building of PODs in shared memory, fliter-graph has an FFmpeg and ONNX plug-in, and retiring support for v0 clients. Plus there are various documentation updates too.

Downloads and more details on the PipeWire 1.6 release via [1]FreeDesktop.org GitLab .



[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/releases/1.6.0


The Worst Jury
A murder trial at Manitoba in February 1978 was well advanced, when
one juror revealed that he was completely deaf and did not have the
remotest clue what was happening.
The judge, Mr. Justice Solomon, asked him if he had heard any
evidence at all and, when there was no reply, dismissed him.
The excitement which this caused was only equalled when a second
juror revealed that he spoke not a word of English. A fluent French
speaker, he exhibited great surprised when told, after two days, that he
was hearing a murder trial.
The trial was abandoned when a third juror said that he suffered
from both conditions, being simultaneously unversed in the English language
and nearly as deaf as the first juror.
The judge ordered a retrial.
-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"