# PipeWire/pipewire

Mirror of the PipeWire repository (see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/)

Repository: https://github.com/PipeWire/pipewire
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pipewire
Homepage: http://pipewire.org
Language: C
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: multimedia, audio, video, framework, daemon
Last push: 2026-08-26T17:24:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3383, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2146, forks 187 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:18.781081+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: stable
- function: audio-processing, video-processing, middleware, plugin-system, sdk
- domain: media, operating-systems
- platform: c, cpp, embedded
- tags: multimedia-pipeline, low-latency-audio, jack-replacement, pulseaudio-replacement, screen-sharing, flatpak, wayland, graph-based-processing, alsa, daemon, audio, video, real-time, linux

## Member repositories
- PipeWire/pipewire (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:18.781081+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:51:09.488192+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/PipeWire/pipewire (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:18.781081+00:00, sha ff4b630aefef)
  - homepage: http://pipewire.org (fetched 2026-08-29T10:31:07.503616+00:00, sha 1376df771cfd)
  - site_page: https://docs.pipewire.org/page_api.html (fetched 2026-08-29T10:31:07.506183+00:00, sha d5c0bc0dc4d0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.