pipewire
brew install pipewire
v1.6.7
MIT AND GPL-2.0-only AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
Linux audio/video server and low-latency routing engine replacing PulseAudio and JACK.
Why you might care
PipeWire handles real-time multimedia streams with lower latency than PulseAudio and bridges audio, video, and Bluetooth devices in a single daemon. It's becoming the default sound server on modern Linux distributions; use it if your distro includes it or you need pro-audio features like JACK compatibility without separate daemons.
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Runtime dependencies
Build dependencies
Links
- https://pipewire.org
- Brew formula source: Formula/p/pipewire.rb
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