pw-loopback
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PipeWire loopback client
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:Manual section: 1
:Manual group: General Commands Manual

SYNOPSIS
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| **pw-loopback** [*options*]

DESCRIPTION
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The *pw-loopback* program is a PipeWire client that uses the PipeWire
loopback module to create loopback nodes, with configuration given via
the command-line options.

OPTIONS
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-h | --help
  Show help.

-r | --remote=NAME
  The name of the *remote* instance to connect to. If left unspecified,
  a connection is made to the default PipeWire instance.

-n | --name=NAME
  Name of the loopback node

-g | --group=NAME
  Name of the loopback node group

-c | --channels=NUMBER
  Number of channels to provide

-m | --channel-map=MAP
  Channel map (default ``[ FL, FR ]``)

-l | --latency=LATENCY
  Desired latency in ms

-d | --delay=DELAY
  Added delay in seconds (floating point allowed)

-C | --capture=TARGET
  Target device to capture from

-P | --playback=TARGET
  Target device to play to

--capture-props=PROPS

  Wanted properties of capture node (in JSON)

--playback-props=PROPS

  Wanted properties of capture node (in JSON)

AUTHORS
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The PipeWire Developers <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>; PipeWire is available from @PACKAGE_URL@

SEE ALSO
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``pipewire(1)``,
``pw-cat(1)``,
``pactl(1)``

Other ways to create loopback nodes are adding the loopback module in
the configuration of a PipeWire daemon, or loading the loopback module
using Pulseaudio commands (``pactl load-module module-loopback ...``).