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Much newer versions are available in Debian Testing and Unstable. This is a documented but unsupported use-case.

In Debian 11, PipeWire 0.3.19 is available, and can be experimentally used as a substitute for the ALSA userspace library, PulseAudio, and JACK. In Debian 10, PipeWire 0.2.5 is available, and should not need to manually be installed, as it's usually brought in as a dependency by applications that make use of it. Among other techniques, PipeWire achieves this with its ability to dynamically switch between different buffer sizes, for adapting to the different latency requirements of different audio applications.

Per the official FAQ, 'you can think of it as a multimedia routing layer on top of the drivers that applications and libraries can use.'Īs opposed to PulseAudio's focus on consumer audio and JACK's focus on professional audio, PipeWire aims to work for all users at all levels. Its most common use is for Wayland and Flatpak applications to implement screensharing, remote desktop, and other forms of audio and video routing between different pieces of software. PipeWire is a server and API for handling multimedia on Linux.

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