PipeWire/pipewire
Mirror of the PipeWire repository (see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/) observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
77/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3383
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2146 stars · 187 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
PipeWire is a server and user-space API for handling multimedia pipelines on Linux, providing a low-latency, graph-based engine for audio and video capture, playback, and processing. It replaces and provides compatibility with PulseAudio, JACK, and ALSA backends, and supports sandboxed applications such as Flatpak.
Use cases
- replace pulseaudio and jack on linux
- low latency audio playback and recording
- screen sharing under wayland
- route audio and video between sandboxed flatpak apps
- build real-time audio processing graphs
- capture video from devices and share with clients
When to choose
- you need a modern low-latency audio/video server on Linux
- you want PulseAudio, JACK, and ALSA compatibility in one daemon
- you need secure multimedia access for containerized or Flatpak apps
- you are building screen sharing or device capture on Wayland
When to avoid
- you need a cross-platform multimedia framework for Windows or macOS
- your project targets non-Linux embedded systems without Linux audio stacks
- you only need simple file-based audio conversion rather than a system daemon
Facets
framework · maturity stable
audio-processing video-processing middleware plugin-system sdk media operating-systems c cpp embedded multimedia-pipeline low-latency-audio jack-replacement pulseaudio-replacement screen-sharing flatpak wayland graph-based-processing alsa daemon audio video real-time linux
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/PipeWire/pipewire · fetched 2026-08-28 · ff4b630aefef
- homepage: http://pipewire.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1376df771cfd
- site_page: https://docs.pipewire.org/page_api.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · d5c0bc0dc4d0
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| PipeWire/pipewire | main | 77 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="PipeWire/pipewire")
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