Section 1 · User commands

pipewire-pulse.1

Package: pipewire-pulseaudio

pipewire-pulse

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO

NAME

pipewire-pulse − The PipeWire PulseAudio replacement

SYNOPSIS

pipewire-pulse [options]

DESCRIPTION

pipewire-pulse starts a PulseAudio-compatible daemon that integrates with the PipeWire media server, by running a pipewire process through a systemd service. This daemon is a drop-in replacement for the PulseAudio daemon.

OPTIONS

-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-pulse.conf).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

The generic pipewire(1) environment variables are supported.

In addition:

PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH

XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

Directory where to create the native protocol pulseaudio socket.

PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC

Extra buffering latency in milliseconds. This controls buffering logic in libpulse and may be set for PulseAudio client applications to adjust their buffering. (Setting it on the pipewire-pulse server has no effect.)

AUTHORS

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