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# PipeWire Overview
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PipeWire is a new low-level multimedia framework designed from scratch that
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aims to provide
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* graph based processing
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* support for out-of-process processing graphs with minimal overhead
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* flexible and extensible media format negotiation and buffer allocation
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* Hard real-time capable plugins
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* achieve very low-latency for both audio and video processing
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The framework is used to build a modular daemon that can be configured to:
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* be a low-latency audio server with features like pulseaudio and/or jack
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* a video capture server that can manage hardware video capture devices and
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provide access to them
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* a central hub where video can be made available for other applications
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such as the gnome-shell screencast API.
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## Components
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Currently PipeWire ships with the following components:
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* a PipeWire daemon that implements the IPC and graph processing
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* an example session manager that manages objects in the PipeWire
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daemon.
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* a set of tools to introspect and use the PipeWire daemon.
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* a library to develop PipeWire applications and plugins.
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### The PipeWire daemon
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### The example session manager
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### Tools
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### Application development
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