[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1055825: pipewire v0.3.84 breaks HDMI audio

[Dylan Aïssi]

Le dim. 12 nov. 2023 à 07:15, Ian Bruce <ian_bruce at mail.ru> a écrit :
>
> pipewire v0.3.84 broke that. It forced the removal of pulseaudio (except some
> libraries),

There was no change in the packaging of pw 0.3.84 forcing the removal
of pulseaudio.

> and disabled HDMI audio completely. HDMI output can still be selected in
> "pavucontrol",
> and the amplitude indicator wiggles appropriately, but absolutely nothing comes
> out of the
> TV speakers. Switching the stream back to the analog speakers works properly;
> switching
> to HDMI produces silence.

No issue here with pw 0.3.85 to switch between laptop speakers and
hdmi speakers.

> I have now downgraded pipewire to v0.3.65/stable, and everything works properly
> again.
> A playing stream can be switched back and forth repeatedly between speakers and
> TV,
> with no problems. pipewire v0.3.83 is no longer available in the archive for
> testing,
> but something between v0.3.65 and v0.3.84 broke HDMI audio completely, at least
> with this
> hardware configuration, which doesn't seem particularly unusual.

If you want to test other versions, you can find all previous packages at
https://snapshot.debian.org/package/pipewire/

Best,
Dylan