pipewire-filter-chain.conf(5)

pipewire-filter-chain.conf5

Filter-chain.conf

Usage

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pipewire/filter-chain.conf

/etc/pipewire/filter-chain.conf

/usr/share/pipewire/filter-chain.conf

/usr/share/pipewire/filter-chain.conf.d/

/etc/pipewire/filter-chain.conf.d/

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pipewire/filter-chain.conf.d/

Overview

PipeWire example configuration for running audio filters.

Overview

When pipewire(1) is run using this configuration file, pipewire -c filter-chain.conf, it starts a PipeWire client application that publishes nodes that apply various audio filters to their input.

It is a normal PipeWire client application in all respects.

Drop-in configuration files filter-chain.conf.d/*.conf can be used to modify the filter configuration, see pipewire.conf(5). Some examples are in /usr/share/pipewire/filter-chain/

Releases

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

  1. 13
  2. Arch

Authors

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

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