libpipewire-modules(7)

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version 1.6.11 · 12 versions
, in fedora 44

💖 libpipewire-modules(7) — the manual page, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, welcome to libpipewire-modules(7), aka the group chat where all the PipeWire modules live. it's filed under Miscellaneous Information Manual and honestly? iconic placement.

✨ NAME ✨

libpipewire-modules — PipeWire modules, the whole squad 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea: a PipeWire module is effectively a PipeWire client that's running inside pipewire(1), and that one client can host, like, multiple modules. it's giving main character energy with a whole entourage.

the way modules usually get loaded is by being listed in the configuration files. no cap. for example, the default configuration file loads several modules, and it looks like this:

context.modules = [
    ...
    # The native communication protocol.
    {   name = libpipewire-module-protocol-native }

    # The profile module. Allows application to access profiler
    # and performance data. It provides an interface that is used
    # by pw-top and pw-profiler.
    {   name = libpipewire-module-profiler }

    # Allows applications to create metadata objects. It creates
    # a factory for Metadata objects.
    {   name = libpipewire-module-metadata }

    # Creates a factory for making devices that run in the
    # context of the PipeWire server.
    {   name = libpipewire-module-spa-device-factory }
    ...
]

see how each one is just vibing in the list? that's the whole system. slay.

👑 KNOWN MODULES 👑

here's the full roster, no one gets left out, every single one is listed with its section 7 manual page:

47 modules. forty-seven. the way they really said "we contain multitudes" 😭💅

🦋 AUTHORS 🦋

The PipeWire Developers

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

pipewire(1), pipewire.conf(5)

ngl bestie, if you're loading these by hand you're doing the most — just let the config files cook 💖

and that's the whole page, periodt 🧚 this was PipeWire version 1.6.11 of libpipewire-modules(7) (yep, straight from Miscellaneous Information Manual territory, section 7, filed under Miscellaneous Information Manual). thanks for reading, ily, go check your context.modules 🍓✨

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