NAME¶

pipewire-pulse.conf - pipewire-pulse.conf
The PipeWire Pulseaudio server configuration file

SYNOPSIS¶

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf

/etc/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf

/usr/share/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf

/usr/share/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf.d/

/etc/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf.d/

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf.d/

DESCRIPTION¶

Configuration for PipeWire's PulseAudio-compatible daemon.

The configuration file format and lookup logic is the same as for pipewire.conf(5).

Drop-in configuration files pipewire-pulse.conf.d/*.conf can be used, and are recommended. See pipewire.conf(5).

CONFIGURATION FILE SECTIONS¶

stream.properties

stream.rules

pulse.properties

pulse.cmd

pulse.rules

See libpipewire-module-protocol-pulse(7) for the detailed description.

In addition, the PipeWire context configuration sections may also be specified, see pipewire.conf(5).

STREAM PROPERTIES¶

The stream.properties section contains properties for streams created by the pipewire-pulse server.

Available options are described in pipewire-client.conf(5) stream.properties.

Some of these properties map to the PulseAudio /etc/pulse/default.pa config entries as follows:

PulseAudio PipeWire Notes remixing-use-all-sink-channels channelmix.upmix remixing-produce-lfe channelmix.lfe-cutoff Set to > 0 to enable remixing-consume-lfe channelmix.mix-lfe lfe-crossover-freq channelmix.lfe-cutoff

stream.properties = {


    #node.latency = 1024/48000


    #node.autoconnect = true


    #resample.disable = false


    #resample.quality = 4


    #monitor.channel-volumes = false


    #channelmix.disable = false


    #channelmix.min-volume = 0.0


    #channelmix.max-volume = 10.0


    #channelmix.normalize = false


    #channelmix.mix-lfe = true


    #channelmix.upmix = true


    #channelmix.upmix-method = psd  # none, simple


    #channelmix.lfe-cutoff = 150.0


    #channelmix.fc-cutoff = 12000.0


    #channelmix.rear-delay = 12.0


    #channelmix.stereo-widen = 0.0


    #channelmix.hilbert-taps = 0


    #dither.noise = 0


    #dither.method = none # rectangular, triangular, triangular-hf, wannamaker3, shaped5


    #debug.wav-path = ""
}

STREAM RULES¶

The stream.rules section works the same as pipewire-client.conf(5) stream.rules.

PULSEAUDIO PROPERTIES¶

For pulse.properties section, see libpipewire-module-protocol-pulse(7) for available options.

PULSEAUDIO RULES¶

For each client, a set of rules can be written in pulse.rules section to configure quirks of the client or to force some pulse specific stream configuration.

The general look of this section is as follows and follows the layout of match rules, see pipewire(1).

See libpipewire-module-protocol-pulse(7) for available options.

pulse.rules = [


    {


        # skype does not want to use devices that don't have an S16 sample format.


        matches = [


             { application.process.binary = "teams" }


             { application.process.binary = "teams-insiders" }


             { application.process.binary = "skypeforlinux" }


        ]


        actions = { quirks = [ force-s16-info ] }


    }


    {


        # speech dispatcher asks for too small latency and then underruns.


        matches = [ { application.name = "~speech-dispatcher*" } ]


        actions = {


            update-props = {


                pulse.min.req          = 1024/48000     # 21ms


                pulse.min.quantum      = 1024/48000     # 21ms


            }


        }


    }
]

PULSEAUDIO COMMANDS¶

As part of the server startup procedure you can execute some additional commands with the pulse.cmd section in pipewire-pulse.conf.

...
pulse.cmd = [


    { cmd = "load-module" args = "module-always-sink" flags = [ ] }


    { cmd = "load-module" args = "module-switch-on-connect" }


    { cmd = "load-module" args = "module-gsettings" flags = [ "nofail" ] }
]
...

Additional commands can also be run via the context.exec section, see pipewire.conf(5).

Supported commands:

load-module

PULSEAUDIO MODULES¶

For contents of section pulse.modules, see pipewire-pulse-modules(7).

AUTHORS¶

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

SEE ALSO¶

libpipewire-module-protocol-pulse(7), pipewire.conf(5), pipewire-pulse(1), pipewire-pulse-modules(7)