To pipewire or not to pipewire?

[alamahant]

Hello Guys,

I recently published an audio player app that uses QtMultimedia.

When testing in my local machine

-–socket=pulseaudio

seems to be sufficient.

As i understand this covers the case of having pipewire-pulse installed locally.

However I briefly browsed some other mediaplayer manifests and I saw some apps also have in the manifest:

-–filesystem=xdg-run/pipewire-0:ro

I thought maybe include it in the manifest to cover edge cases of a user having only pipewire-alsa or some other niche audio set up.

However this addition triggers a “potentially unsafe“ warning.

What do you advice me to do?

Thanks a lot for your attention and help

[hub]

pulseaudio exposes ALSA devices too.

the pipewire socket is only necessary for pipewire usage, which includes JACK.

[alamahant]

Thanks a lot for your kind reply.

This cleared things up nicely.