LIBPIPEWIRE-MODULE-EXAMPLE-SOURCE(7)

✨ libpipewire-module-example-source(7) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Miscellaneous Information Manual 💖 this little page is all about libpipewire-module-example-source, and honestly? it's giving starter pack energy, in the best way.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

libpipewire-module-example-source — Example Source 👑

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the example source is literally the perfect lil starting point if you wanna write your own custom source 🦋 like, it's the blueprint, the moment, the template.

for more info we just point you at the source code, iykyk 👀

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💅 MODULE NAME 💅

libpipewire-module-example-source

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✨ MODULE OPTIONS ✨

these are the options that belong to this module specifically:

• node.name — a unique name for the stream, no duplicates allowed bestie 🫶
• node.description — a human readable name for the stream, the cute one people actually see
• stream.props = {} — properties to be passed to the stream 💫

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🌈 GENERAL OPTIONS 🌈

these ones are options with well-known behavior — the classics, the icons:

• remote.name
• audio.format
• audio.rate
• audio.channels
• audio.layout
• audio.position
• media.name
• node.latency
• node.name
• node.description
• node.group
• node.virtual
• media.class

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🌟 EXAMPLE CONFIGURATION 🌟

here's what it looks like fr fr, copy it, love it, make it yours:

# ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/my-example-source.conf

context.modules = [
{   name = libpipewire-module-example-source
    args = {
        node.name = "example_source"
        node.description = "My Example Source"
        stream.props = {
            audio.position = [ FL FR ]
        }
    }
}
]

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💡 heads up bestie: that file path up there? ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/my-example-source.conf — that's exactly where this goes, don't @ me.

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and that's the whole page, periodt. this was PipeWire 1.6.11 in the Miscellaneous Information Manual — go forth and write the most iconic custom source ever, you got this 💖✨🎀🦋🌸👑