libpipewire-module-ffado-driver(7)

libpipewire-module-ffado-driver7

Ffado firewire audio driver

Overview

The ffado-driver module provides a source or sink using the libffado library for reading and writing to firewire audio devices.

Module name

libpipewire-module-ffado-driver

Options

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driver.mode: the driver mode, sink|source|duplex, default duplex

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ffado.devices: array of devices to open, default "hw:0"

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ffado.period-size: period size,default 1024. A value of 0 will use the graph duration.

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ffado.period-num: period number,default 3

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ffado.sample-rate: sample-rate, default 48000. A value of 0 will use the graph rate.

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ffado.slave-mode: slave mode

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ffado.snoop-mode: snoop mode

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ffado.verbose: ffado verbose level

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ffado.rtprio: ffado realtime priority, this is by default the PipeWire server priority + 5

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ffado.realtime: ffado realtime mode. this requires correctly configured rlimits to acquire FIFO scheduling at the ffado.rtprio priority

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latency.internal.input: extra input latency in frames

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latency.internal.output: extra output latency in frames

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source.props: Extra properties for the source filter

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sink.props: Extra properties for the sink filter

Options

Options with well-known behavior.

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remote.name

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audio.layout

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audio.position

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node.name

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node.description

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node.group

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node.virtual

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media.class

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target.object to specify the remote node.name or serial.id to link to

Example configuration of a duplex sink/source

# ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/my-ffado-driver.conf
context.modules = [
{   name = libpipewire-module-ffado-driver
    args = {
        #driver.mode       = duplex
        #ffado.devices     = [ "hw:0" ]
        #ffado.period-size = 1024
        #ffado.period-num  = 3
        #ffado.sample-rate = 48000
        #ffado.slave-mode  = false
        #ffado.snoop-mode  = false
        #ffado.verbose     = 0
        #ffado.rtprio      = 65
        #ffado.realtime    = true
        #latency.internal.input  = 0
        #latency.internal.output = 0
        #audio.position    = [ FL FR ]
        source.props = {
            # extra sink properties
        }
        sink.props = {
            # extra sink properties
        }
    }
}
]

Releases

2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 13
  2. Arch

From pipewire-ffado 1:1.6.10-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.