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