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/** \page page_overview 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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# Motivation
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Linux has no unified framework for exchanging multimedia content between
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applications or even devices. In most cases, developers realized that
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a user-space daemon is needed to make this possible:
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- For video content, we typically rely on the compositor to render our
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data.
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- For video capture, we usually go directly to the hardware devices, with
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all security implications and inflexible routing that this brings.
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- For consumer audio, we use PulseAudio to manage and mix multiple streams
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from clients.
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- For Pro audio, we use JACK to manage the graph of nodes.
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None of these solutions (except perhaps to some extent Wayland) however
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were designed to support the security features that are required when
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dealing with flatpaks or other containerized applications. PipeWire
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aims to solve this problem and provides a unified framework to run both
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consumer and pro audio as well as video capture and processing in a
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secure way.
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*/
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