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pipewire - The PipeWire media server

pipewire [options]

PipeWire is a service that facilitates sharing of multimedia content between devices and applications.

The pipewire daemon reads a config file that is further documented in pipewire.conf(5) manual page.

-h | --help

Show help.

-v | --verbose

Increase the verbosity by one level. This option may be specified multiple times.

--version

Show version information.

-c | --config=FILE

Load the given config file (Default: pipewire.conf).

-P | --properties=PROPS

Add the given properties as a SPA JSON object to the context.

A PipeWire daemon will also expose a settings metadata object that can be used to change some settings at runtime.

Normally these settings can bypass any of the restrictions listed in the config options above, such as quantum and samplerate values.

The settings can be modified using pw-metadata(1):

pw-metadata -n settings                  # list settings
pw-metadata -n settings 0                # list server settings
pw-metadata -n settings 0 log.level 2    # modify a server setting

log.level = INTEGER

Change the log level of the PipeWire daemon.

clock.rate = INTEGER

The default samplerate.

clock.allowed-rates = [ RATE1 RATE2... ]

The allowed samplerates.

clock.force-rate = INTEGER

Temporarily forces the graph to operate in a fixed sample rate. Both DSP processing and devices will switch to the new rate immediately. Running streams (PulseAudio, native and ALSA applications) will automatically resample to match the new rate.

Set the value to 0 to allow the sample rate to vary again.

clock.quantum = INTEGER

The default quantum (buffer size).

clock.min-quantum = INTEGER

Smallest quantum to be used.

clock.max-quantum = INTEGER

Largest quantum to be used.

clock.force-quantum = INTEGER

Temporarily force the graph to operate in a fixed quantum.

Set the value to 0 to allow the quantum to vary again.

PIPEWIRE_RUNTIME_DIR

XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

USERPROFILE

Used to find the PipeWire socket on the server (and native clients).

PIPEWIRE_CORE

Name of the socket to make.

PIPEWIRE_REMOTE

Name of the socket to connect to.

PIPEWIRE_DAEMON

If set to true then the process becomes a new PipeWire server.

PIPEWIRE_CONFIG_DIR

XDG_CONFIG_HOME

HOME

Used to find the config file directories.

PIPEWIRE_CONFIG_PREFIX

PIPEWIRE_CONFIG_NAME

Used to override the application provided config prefix and config name.

PIPEWIRE_NO_CONFIG

Enables (false) or disables (true) overriding on the default configuration.

As part of a client context, the following information is collected from environment variables and placed in the context properties:

LANG

The current language in application.language.

XDG_SESSION_ID

Set as the application.process.session-id property.

DISPLAY

Is set as the window.x11.display property.

PIPEWIRE_MODULE_DIR

Sets the directory where to find PipeWire modules.

SPA_SUPPORT_LIB

The name of the SPA support lib to load. This can be used to switch to an alternative support library, for example, to run on the EVL realtime kernel.

JOURNAL_STREAM

Is used to parse the stream used for the journal. This is usually configured by systemd.

PIPEWIRE_LOG_LINE

Enables the logging of line numbers. Default true.

PIPEWIRE_LOG_TIMESTAMP

Logging timestamp type: 'local', 'monotonic', 'realtime', 'none'. Default 'local'.

PIPEWIRE_LOG

Specifies a log file to use instead of the default logger.

PIPEWIRE_LOG_SYSTEMD

Enables the use of systemd for the logger, default true.

PIPEWIRE_CPU

Selects the CPU and flags. This is a bitmask of any of the CPU flags

PIPEWIRE_VM

Selects the Virtual Machine PipeWire is running on. This can be any of the VM types.

DISABLE_RTKIT

Disables the use of RTKit or the Realtime Portal for realtime scheduling.

NO_COLOR

Disables the use of colors in the console output.

PIPEWIRE_DLCLOSE

Enables (true) or disables (false) the use of dlclose when a shared library is no longer in use. When debugging, it might make sense to disable dlclose to be able to get debugging symbols from the object.

PIPEWIRE_NODE

Makes a stream connect to a specific object.serial or node.name.

PIPEWIRE_PROPS

Adds extra properties to a stream or filter.

PIPEWIRE_QUANTUM

Forces a specific rate and buffer-size for the stream or filter.

PIPEWIRE_LATENCY

Sets a specific latency for a stream or filter. This is only a suggestion but the configured latency will not be larger.

PIPEWIRE_RATE

Sets a rate for a stream or filter. This is only a suggestion. The rate will be switched when the graph is idle.

PIPEWIRE_AUTOCONNECT

Overrides the default stream autoconnect settings.

SPA_PLUGIN_DIR

Is used to locate SPA plugins.

SPA_DATA_DIR

Is used to locate plugin specific config files. This is used by the bluetooth plugin currently to locate the quirks database.

SPA_DEBUG

Set the log level for SPA plugins. This is usually controlled by the PIPEWIRE_DEBUG variable when the plugins are managed by PipeWire but some standalone tools (like spa-inspect) uses this variable.

ACP_BUILDDIR

If set, the ACP profiles are loaded from the builddir.

ACP_PATHS_DIR

ACP_PROFILES_DIR

Used to locate the ACP paths and profile directories respectively.

LADSPA_PATH

Comma separated list of directories where the ladspa plugins can be found.

LIBJACK_PATH

Directory where the jack1 or jack2 libjack.so can be found.

The PipeWire Developers <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/issues>; PipeWire is available from <https://pipewire.org>

pw-top(1), pw-dump(1), pw-mon(1), pw-cat(1), pw-cli(1), libpipewire-modules(7)

1.4.2 PipeWire