PipeWire: Difference between revisions
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PipeWire is a new low-level multimedia framework. It aims to offer capture and playback for both audio and video with minimal latency and support for PulseAudio-, JACK-, ALSA- and GStreamer-based applications. PipeWire has a great bluetooth support: because Pulseaudio was [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/123784 reported to have troubles with bluetooth], PipeWire can be a good alternative. | [https://www.pipewire.org/ PipeWire] is a relatively new (first release in 2017) low-level multimedia framework. It aims to offer capture and playback for both audio and video with minimal latency and support for PulseAudio-, JACK-, ALSA- and GStreamer-based applications. PipeWire has a great bluetooth support: because Pulseaudio was [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/123784 reported to have troubles with bluetooth], PipeWire can be a good alternative. | ||
The daemon based on the framework can be configured to be both an audio server (with PulseAudio and JACK features) and a video capture server. | The daemon based on the framework can be configured to be both an audio server (with PulseAudio and JACK features) and a video capture server. | ||
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==Enabling PipeWire== | ==Enabling PipeWire== | ||
PipeWire can be enabled with the following configuration: | |||
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It is possible to use the<code>ervices.pipewire.extraConfig</code> option hierarchy in NixOS (available from 24.05 onwards) to create drop-in configuration files, if needed. | |||
==Bluetooth Configuration== | ==Bluetooth Configuration== | ||
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It is possible change a particular user instead of system-wide, with adding this to <code>~/.config/wireplumber/bluetooth.lua.d</code> instead, manually or using Home-Manager. | |||
If you're still on 21.11 or enabled <code>pipewire-media-session</code> manually (by setting <code>services.pipewire.media-session.enable = true</code>), them you can use the module to configure it: | If you're still on 21.11 or enabled <code>pipewire-media-session</code> manually (by setting <code>services.pipewire.media-session.enable = true</code>), them you can use the module to configure it: | ||