PipeWire

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PipeWire is a server for handling audio, video streams, and hardware on Linux. It was created by Wim Taymans of Red Hat. It handles multimedia routing and pipeline processing.

GUI

• coppwr — Low level control and diagnostic GUI for PipeWire.
  • https://github.com/dimtpap/coppwr || coppwrAUR
• Helvum — GTK-based patchbay for PipeWire, inspired by the JACK tool catia. Does not save wire sets.
  • https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/helvum || helvum
• qpwgraph — Qt-based Graph/Patchbay for PipeWire, inspired by the JACK tool QjackCtl. Saves wire sets.
  • https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/rncbc/qpwgraph || qpwgraph
• pwvucontrol — Pipewire Volume Control. Alternative to pavucontrol.
  • https://github.com/saivert/pwvucontrol || pwvucontrolAUR

See also

• Screencast
• Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (alsa)
• scrot

Favorite site

• PipeWire web site
• PipeWire / pipewire · GitLab
• PipeWire - Wikipedia
• PipeWire - ArchWiki