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PipeWire
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2015-04-16 16:58:33 +02:00
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2017-05-23 19:15:33 +02:00
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PipeWire is a server and user space API to deal with multimedia
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pipelines. This includes:
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- Making available sources of video (such as from a capture devices or
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application provided streams) and multiplexing this with
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clients.
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- Accessing sources of video for consumption.
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- Generating graphs for audio and video processing.
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Nodes in the graph can be implemented as separate processes,
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communicating with sockets and exchanging multimedia content using fd
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passing.
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2017-09-30 12:43:42 +01:00
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Building
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Pipewire uses the Meson and Ninja build system to compile. If you're not
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familiar with these tools, the included "autogen.sh" script will
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automatically run the correct meson/ninja commands, and output a Makefile.
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It follows that there are two methods to build Pipewire, however both rely
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on Meson and Ninja to actually perform the compilation:
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$ ./autogen.sh
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$ make
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or the Meson/Ninja native method:
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$ meson build
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$ cd build
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$ ninja
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2018-11-05 17:48:52 +01:00
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You can see the available meson options in meson_options.txt file.
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