can’t seem to play local videos from vlc
I would highly recommend installing qpwgraph. It’ll give you a visual patchbay, which will give you a better idea of what applications are exposing audio outs to pipe wire, as well as where those outs are being routed.
I installed it but I don’t understand how it’s going to help me troubleshoot “pipewire-alsa” I assume
Oh this one’s stupid on CachyOS, regarding Ardour. With Ardour (the latest versions I tested), I was unable to place down a MIDI region due to a Pipewire regression. I told my producer, Neigsendoig, about it, and he tested it. Same exact nonsense. This was reported to the Ardour forums to see what can be done about it.
Tell us more about your set up, are you on a laptop or do you have an external usb Audio device?
If you’re on ubuntu-based distro, install the ubudustudio package for pipewire that seems to fix a few things differently than other distros.
