PipeWire 0.3.65
PipeWire

PipeWire is low-level multimedia framework that provides:

  • Graph based processing.
  • Support for out-of-process processing graphs with minimal overhead.
  • Flexible and extensible media format negotiation and buffer allocation.
  • Hard real-time capable plugins.
  • Very low-latency for both audio and video processing.

See Overview for an overview of PipeWire and Design for the design principles guiding PipeWire.

Components

PipeWire ships with the following components:

API Documentation

See PipeWire API.

More Documentation

See our Wiki for More information on how to configure and use PipeWire.

Resources