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+# PipeWire
+
+PipeWire is a server and user space API to deal with multimedia
+pipelines. This includes:
+
+  - Making available sources of video (such as from a capture devices or
+    application provided streams) and multiplexing this with
+    clients.
+  - Accessing sources of video for consumption.
+  - Generating graphs for audio and video processing.
+
+Nodes in the graph can be implemented as separate processes,
+communicating with sockets and exchanging multimedia content using fd
+passing.
+
+## Building
+
+Pipewire uses the Meson and Ninja build system to compile. You can run it
+with:
+
+```
+$ meson build
+$ cd build
+$ ninja
+```
+
+You can see the available meson options in `meson_options.txt` file.
+
+If you're not familiar with these tools, the included `autogen.sh` script will
+automatically run the correct `meson`/`ninja` commands, and output a Makefile.
+It follows that there are two methods to build Pipewire, however both rely
+on Meson and Ninja to actually perform the compilation:
+
+```
+$ ./autogen.sh
+$ make
+```
+
+## Running
+
+If you want to run PipeWire without installing it on your system, there is a
+script that you can run. This puts you in an environment in which PipeWire can
+be run from the build directory, and ALSA, PulseAudio and JACK applications
+will use the PipeWire emulation libraries automatically
+in this environment. You can get into this environment with:
+
+```
+$ ./pw-uninstalled.sh
+```