PipeWire Alternatives

Alternatives list

1. 

   

   JACK Audio Connection Kit

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   JACK is a professional sound server daemon that provides real-time low latency connections for both audio and MIDI data between applications that implement its API. The API can be used through either JACK1 or JACK2.

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   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application type

   • Audio Router

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD

   • United States

   

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   PulseAudio

    20 likes

   PulseAudio is a sound server system for POSIX OSes, meaning that it is a proxy for your sound applications. It is an integral part of all relevant modern Linux distributions and is used in various mobile devices, by multiple vendors.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (LGPL-2.1)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Audio Router
   • Volume Control

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD
   • Oracle Solaris

   • United States

   

   

   

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   GStreamer

    13 likes

   GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (LGPL-2.1)

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   NewPlayer

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   NewPlayer is a media framework, which is independent of NewPipe itself. I decided to make it independent, because one of the big issues we have with the current player is that it is deeply integrated into NewPipe.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Kotlin
   • Self-Hosted

   • Germany
   • EU

   

   

   

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   Phonon

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   Phonon is the Qt multimedia toolkit. It allows developers to add multimedia functionality to applications with minimal effort.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (LGPL-2.1)

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Mac
   • BSD
   • Windows
   • Self-Hosted

   

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   Advanced Linux Sound Architecture

    8 likes

   Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (known by the acronym ALSA) is a free and open source software framework that provides an API for device drivers for sound cards. Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were automatic configuration of sound-card hardware, and...

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Software Framework

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   coppwr

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   coppwr is a tool that provides low level control over the PipeWire multimedia server. It aims to expose and provide as many ways to inspect and control the many components of the PipeWire multimedia server as possible.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Flathub

   

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