PipeWire
Sign in to savePipeWire is a low-level server and multimedia framework for handling audio and video streams on Linux. Created by Wim Taymans at Red Hat, it aims to unify audio and video processing by providing low-latency capture and playback functionality. PipeWire facilitates advanced multimedia routing and pipeline processing, and is designed to replace and be compatible with existing sound systems.
Key facts
- Software.name
- PipeWire
- Software.logo_size
- 250px
- Software.screenshot
- PipeWire 1.4.1 screenshot.webp
- Software.screenshot_alt
- Screenshot showing information of audio server as reported by PulseAudio Control (pactl) software, PipeWire is using PulseAudio as its audio server and the library version information for PipeWire 1.4.1
- Software.caption
- Screenshot of pactl showing information about PipeWire configuration in a system and version information
- Software.author
- Wim Taymans
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- Linux, FreeBSD
- Software.license
- MIT License
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PipeWire is a low-level server and multimedia framework for handling audio and video streams on Linux. Created by Wim Taymans at Red Hat, it aims to unify audio and video processing by providing low-latency capture and playback functionality. PipeWire facilitates advanced multimedia routing and pipeline processing, and is designed to replace and be compatible with existing sound systems.
==History== In 2015, Taymans started work on PipeWire. It was based on ideas from several existing projects, including one called PulseVideo by William Manley. According to Red Hat's Christian Schaller, it drew many of its ideas from an early PulseVideo prototype by Manley and builds upon some of the code that was merged into GStreamer due to that effort. A goal of the project was to improve handling of video on Linux in the same way that PulseAudio improved handling of audio.