Crash with Pipewire-Jack 0.3.33, here's a workaround!

[praashie]

Since upgrading from Pipewire ~0.3.31 to 0.3.33, WineASIO has started to crash immediately when trying to use it with Pipewire's Jack implementation instead of a native Jack server.

More information about the crash: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1495

Workaround for low-latency Wine applications

Use Pipewire for handling your sound cards, and run a Jack2 server with alsa backend and using pipewire as the device.

jackd -d alsa -d pipewire -p $PERIOD_SIZE -r $SAMPLE_RATE

Pipewire is not able to communicate with native Jack very well, so individual clients can't directly connect between native Jack and Pipewire. You can run an individual Wine application in the native Jack server and connect other Pipewire/PW-Jack clients to the endpoints of the Jack server.

In my case, I'm using FL Studio. I'm not satisfied with using FL Studio ASIO because Wine's own PulseAudio/ALSA drivers use hidden buffers to increase stability, with the penalty of unacceptable (~60 ms) extra latency for playing virtual instruments.

[ghost]

you are a lifesaver.

[szszoke]

@praashie how did you make jackd work like that?

To me it fails with messages saying that jackd was unable to acquire the pipewire device.

WineASIO works when I stop pipewire and just use jackd but that is not feasible.

[tank-trax]

this does not work here

jackd -d alsa -d pipewire -p 2 -r 48000

[E][04694.333873] default      | [       control.c:   64 jackctl_server_create()] deprecated
[W][04694.334000] default      | [       control.c:   87 jackctl_server_create2()] not implemented 0x55af0cf66f50 0x55af0cf670c0 (nil)
[W][04694.334035] default      | [       control.c:  174 jackctl_server_get_parameters()] 0x55af0d713e80: not implemented
[W][04694.334062] default      | [       control.c:  162 jackctl_server_get_drivers_list()] 0x55af0d713e80: not implemented
[W][04694.334085] default      | [       control.c:  245 jackctl_driver_get_name()] 0x55af0d713ed0: not implemented
Unknown driver "alsa"
[W][04694.334110] default      | [       control.c:  114 jackctl_server_destroy()] 0x55af0d713e80: not implemented

[falkTX]

those calls are from jackdbus, which is not supported under pipewire.

[falkTX]

so likely the original poster has a jack2 build with jackd/classic mode on but disabled jackdbus.
you cannot have this under debian based distros

[szszoke]

@falkTX is that an option during compilation or a command line switch?

[falkTX]

A build option. Debian has both jackd classic and jackdbus enabled on its builds.

[szszoke]

You are right. I had jack2-dbus installed on one of my machines and there it didn't work. I tested on another machine where jack2-dbus wasn't installed and there it worked.

The interesting thing is that the first machine is still not working after I uninstalled jack2-dbus

[rolesyuk]

Steps to reproduce the bug with OSS software (PortAudio) with the record example paex_record.exe (playback with paex_saw.exe works well):

On Windows machine:

• Intall https://github.com/msys2/msys2-installer/releases/download/2022-01-28/msys2-x86_64-20220128.exe
• pacman -Syu --needed base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain git unzip
• wget https://www.steinberg.net/asiosdk
• unzip asiosdk
• mv asiosdk_2.3.3_2019-06-14 /usr/local/asiosdk2
• git clone https://github.com/PortAudio/portaudio
• cd portaudio
• ./configure --with-winapi=asio
• make
• mkdir pa-test
• cp bin/.libs/paex_record.exe bin/.libs/pa_devs.exe bin/.libs/paex_saw.exe /mingw64/bin/libstdc++-6.dll /mingw64/bin/libgcc_s_seh-1.dll /mingw64/bin/libwinpthread-1.dll pa-test/
• zip -r pa-test.zip pa-test

On Linux machine:

• unzip pa-test.zip && cd pa-test
• WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-test wine64 regsvr32 wineasio.dll
• WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-test wine paex_record.exe

Output:

=== Now recording!! Please speak into the microphone. ===
*** stack smashing detected ***: terminated
0108:err:seh:call_stack_handlers invalid frame 00007FF511B65710 (0000000000022000-0000000000220000)
0108:err:seh:NtRaiseException Exception frame is not in stack limits => unable to dispatch exception.

pa-test.zip

[tank-trax]

Not sure when the fix was made but WINEASIO works with Pipewire 0.3.51 using Wine-Staging 7.9