libpipewire-modules - Man Page

PipeWire modules

Description

A PipeWire module is effectively a PipeWire client running inside pipewire(1) which can host multiple modules​. Usually modules are loaded when they are listed in the configuration files​. For example the default configuration file loads several modules: 

context​.modules = [
    ​.​.​.
    # The native communication protocol​.
    {   name = libpipewire-module-protocol-native }

    # The profile module​. Allows application to access profiler
    # and performance data​. It provides an interface that is used
    # by pw-top and pw-profiler​.
    {   name = libpipewire-module-profiler }

    # Allows applications to create metadata objects​. It creates
    # a factory for Metadata objects​.
    {   name = libpipewire-module-metadata }

    # Creates a factory for making devices that run in the
    # context of the PipeWire server​.
    {   name = libpipewire-module-spa-device-factory }
    ​.​.​.
]

Known Modules

Authors

The PipeWire Developers <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/issues>; PipeWire is available from <https://pipewire.org>

See Also

pipewire(1), pipewire​.conf(5)

Info

1.6.9 PipeWire