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PipeWire Is Doing An Excellent Job Handling Audio/Video Streams On The Linux Desktop


Red Hat engineer and PipeWire lead developer Wim Taymans presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend around the state of the PipeWire project for this integral component to the modern Linux desktop.

PipeWire is now widely found across Linux desktops for managing audio/video streams and successfully replacing the roles of PulseAudio and JACK. Some of the other recent PipeWire development tasks has included multi-threaded execution in the server, improved start/stop of nodes, Flatpak security context handling, more Bluetooth codec support like for Opus and AAC-ELD, and lazy scheduling. On the Bluetooth side some upcoming work includes ASHA hearing aid support and BAP broadcast sinks.

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