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    PipeWire

    Low-latency multimedia framework for Linux audio and video, supporting PulseAudio, JACK, ALSA and GStreamer applications

    • Free • Open Source
    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
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    What is PipeWire?

    PipeWire is a project 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, with supporting Flatpak applications being the primary goal. Alongside Wayland and Flatpak we expect PipeWire to provide a core building block for the future of Linux application development.

    - 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 Small PulseAudio iconPulseAudio, Small JACK Audio Connection Kit iconJACK Audio Connection Kit, Small Advanced Linux Sound Architecture iconAdvanced Linux Sound Architecture and Small GStreamer iconGStreamer applications.
    - Sandboxed applications support. See Small Flatpak iconFlatpak for more info.
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    Said about PipeWire as an alternative

    headlines PipeWire is a seamless drop-in replacement for ALSA that also handles JACK and PulseAudio applications at the same time.
    Positive comment • 7 months ago • as an alternative to  
    Advanced Linux Sound Architecture

    headlines PipeWire is a seamless drop-in replacement for GStreamer. PipeWire is also able to handle ALSA, JACK and PulseAudio applications at the same time.
    Positive comment • 7 months ago • as an alternative to  
    GStreamer

    headlines PipeWire is a seamless drop-in replacement for JACK (and JACK2) that also handles PulseAudio applications at the same time.
    Positive comment • 7 months ago • as an alternative to  
    JACK Audio Connection Kit

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    • multimedia-framework
    • system-audio
    • sound-card
    • video-servers
    • video-server
    • framework
    • soundserver
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    • Developed by Wim Taymans
    • Open Source and Free product.
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