Bug 464916

Summary:	Feature parity between pulseaudio and pipewire in regard to creating virtual sound devices by combining multiple streams or to output to multiple sinks
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	sk.griffinix
Component:	kcm_pulseaudio	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugs.kde.org, guido.iodice, isma.af, me, nowrep
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440536
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description sk.griffinix 2023-01-27 22:19:58 UTC

SUMMARY
Currently, when using pulseaudio and configuring sound settings, it is possible to create virtual devices. However, the UI is absent if the backend used is pipewire. With pipewire now supporting native module-combine-stream (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/tags/0.3.65), the feature should be made accessible via GUI for feature parity.

Comment 1 Guido 2023-01-28 10:22:43 UTC

With pipewire is also absent a more basic switch to deviate the output on last inserted device.

Comment 2 Ismael Asensio 2023-03-12 00:57:03 UTC

Besides module-combine-stream, pipewire is still missing module-gsettings so that we can change these settings (at least in a compatible way with the current pulseaudio interface).

The integration of this module seems to be in progress though (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/merge_requests/1468)

Comment 3 Piotr Dobrogost 2024-01-25 08:07:16 UTC

Related https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440536