pipewire

Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) Publisher Star developer Star developer

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Pipewire server, plus wireplumber and pipewire-pulse

PipeWire is a video and audio server that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. It provides a low-latency, graph-based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both PulseAudio and JACK. PipeWire was designed with a powerful security model that makes interacting with audio and video devices from containerized applications easy. It offers:

  • Capture and playback of audio and video with minimal latency.
  • Real-time multimedia processing on audio and video.
  • Multiprocess architecture to let applications share multimedia content.
  • Seamless support for PulseAudio, JACK, ALSA, and GStreamer applications.
  • Sandboxed applications support.

Details for pipewire

License
  • MIT
Last updated
  • 29 January 2025 - latest/stable
  • 5 March 2025 - latest/edge
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