PIPEWIRE-PULSE-MODULE-ALSA-SOURCE(7)

💖 pipewire-pulse-module-alsa-source 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for the PulseAudio-compatible module that lives in the PipeWire family (and it hangs out in the Miscellaneous Information Manual, if you were wondering where it lives).

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✨ NAME ✨

pipewire-pulse-module-alsa-source — ALSA Source, but make it a module 🎀

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🦋 MODULE NAME 🦋

module-alsa-source

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🌸 MODULE OPTIONS 🌸

so like. here is the ENTIRE list of options, no skips, no cuts, all 23 of them, periodt:

• name — the name of the source, and yes it's meant to be used as a prefix 💅
• source_name — the name for the source itself
• source_properties — the properties for the source
• namereg_fail — when it's false, it tries to synthesise a new source_name if the one you wanted is already taken 🙈
• device — the ALSA device
• device_id — the ALSA card index
• format — the sample format
• rate — the sample rate
• alternate_rate — the alternate sample rate
• channels — the number of channels
• channel_map — the channel map
• fragments — the number of fragments
• fragment_size — the fragment size
• mmap — enable memory mapping? 👀
• tsched — enable system timer based scheduling mode?
• tsched_buffer_size — the buffer size when using timer based scheduling
• tsched_buffer_watermark — the lower fill watermark
• control — the name of the mixer control, or the name and index separated by a comma
• rewind_safeguard — the number of bytes that cannot be rewound
• deferred_volume — synchronize software and hardware volume changes to avoid momentary jumps? (iykyk, those little volume pops are SO not it 😭)
• deferred_volume_safety_margin — usec adjustment depending on volume direction
• deferred_volume_extra_delay — usec adjustment to HW volume changes
• fixed_latency_range — disable latency range changes on underrun?

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that's literally the whole thing, no filler, no gatekeeping 🫶

okay and for the lil sign-off: this page is brought to you by PipeWire 1.6.11, and in the footer energy it's still answering to pipewire...sa-source(7) because that's just its name and we respect it 👑✨

stay slaying those ALSA sources bestie, mwah 💖🌸