PipeWire

PipeWire
Original author(s)Wim Taymans
Initial release20 June 2017 (2017-06-20)
Stable release
1.4.6[1] Edit this on Wikidata (27 June 2025 (27 June 2025))
Repositorygitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire
Written inC
Operating systemLinux, FreeBSD
LicenseMIT License
Websitepipewire.org

PipeWire is a low-level server and multimedia framework for handling audio and video streams on Linux.[2][3][4] Created by Wim Taymans at Red Hat, it aims to unify audio and video processing by providing low-latency capture and playback functionality.[5][6] Pipewire facilitates advanced multimedia routing and pipeline processing, and is designed to replace and be compatible with existing sound systems.[7]

  1. ^ "1.4.6". 27 June 2025. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  2. ^ Schaller, Christian (2017-09-19). "Launching Pipewire!". Christian F.K. Schaller. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
  3. ^ Lerch, Ryan (2017-09-20). "Improved multimedia support with Pipewire in Fedora 27". Fedora Magazine. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  4. ^ Sneddon, Joey (2017-09-21). "PipeWire aims to do for video what PulseAudio did for sound". OMG! Ubuntu!. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  5. ^ Schaller, Christian (2015-06-30). "Fedora Workstation next steps : Introducing Pinos". Christian F.K. Schaller. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
  6. ^ Waymans, Tim (November 25–27, 2020). "PipeWire: a low-level multimedia subsystem". Proceedings of the 18th Linux Audio Conference (LAC-20). SCRIME, University of Bordeaux.
  7. ^ Raghavan, Arun (2018-10-31). "Update from the PipeWire hackfest". Arun Raghavan. Retrieved 2019-06-30.

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