LIBPIPEWIRE-MODULE-FFADO-DRIVER(7)

💖 libpipewire-module-ffado-driver — the FFADO firewire audio driver 💖

okay bestie, this is a page from the Miscellaneous Information Manual, and it's all about the libpipewire-module-ffado-driver situation. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

libpipewire-module-ffado-driver — FFADO firewire audio driver 🦋

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the ffado-driver module? it hands you a source or a sink, and it does that by using the libffado library to read from and write to firewire audio devices. that's it, that's the vibe. literally the whole point. 💅

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👑 MODULE NAME 👑

libpipewire-module-ffado-driver

(yes, that's the name. remember it, iykyk ✨)

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🔥 MODULE OPTIONS 🔥

okay so this is the good part, the options. every single one. no skipping, no cap. 🫶

• driver.mode — the driver mode. your choices are sink source duplex, and the default is duplex.
• ffado.devices — an array of devices to open. default is "hw:0".
• ffado.period-size — the period size. default is 1024. if you set it to 0, it'll use the graph duration instead.
• ffado.period-num — the period number. default is 3.
• ffado.sample-rate — the sample-rate. default is 48000. and if you set it to 0, it'll use the graph rate. cute, right?
• ffado.slave-mode — slave mode.
• ffado.snoop-mode — snoop mode.
• ffado.verbose — the ffado verbose level.
• ffado.rtprio — the ffado realtime priority. by default this is the PipeWire server priority + 5.
• ffado.realtime — the ffado realtime mode. heads up bestie: this one requires correctly configured rlimits so it can acquire FIFO scheduling at the ffado.rtprio priority.
• latency.internal.input — extra input latency in frames.
• latency.internal.output — extra output latency in frames.
• source.props — extra properties for the source filter.
• sink.props — extra properties for the sink filter.

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🌈 GENERAL OPTIONS 🌈

these are the options with well-known behavior. you already know them, they're iconic, they don't need an introduction. 🌟

• remote.name
• audio.layout
• audio.position
• node.name
• node.description
• node.group
• node.virtual
• media.class
• target.object — to specify the remote node.name or serial.id to link to.

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🧚 EXAMPLE CONFIGURATION OF A DUPLEX SINK/SOURCE 🧚

here's a whole config file, main character energy, copy it and make it yours:

# ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/my-ffado-driver.conf

context.modules = [
{   name = libpipewire-module-ffado-driver
    args = {
        #driver.mode       = duplex
        #ffado.devices     = [ "hw:0" ]
        #ffado.period-size = 1024
        #ffado.period-num  = 3
        #ffado.sample-rate = 48000
        #ffado.slave-mode  = false
        #ffado.snoop-mode  = false
        #ffado.verbose     = 0
        #ffado.rtprio      = 65
        #ffado.realtime    = true
        #latency.internal.input  = 0
        #latency.internal.output = 0
        #audio.position    = [ FL FR ]
        source.props = {
            # extra sink properties
        }
        sink.props = {
            # extra sink properties
        }
    }
}
]

💀 reminder: everything in there is commented out in the example, so uncomment what you actually want. don't come for me when the defaults do default things.

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one's from PipeWire, version 1.6.11, and it lives in the libpipewire-module-ffado-driver (7) section of the Miscellaneous Information Manual. go plug in a firewire device and slay 💜✨🎀