PipeWire Module: VBAN sender

The vban-send module creates a PipeWire sink that sends audio and midi VBAN packets.

Module Options

Options specific to the behavior of this module

• source.ip =<str>: source IP address, default "0.0.0.0"
• destination.ip =<str>: destination IP address, default "127.0.0.1"
• destination.port =<int>: destination port, default 6980
• local.ifname = <str>: interface name to use
• net.mtu = <int>: MTU to use, default 1500
• net.ttl = <int>: TTL to use, default 1
• net.loop = <bool>: loopback multicast, default false
• sess.min-ptime = <int>: minimum packet time in milliseconds, default 2
• sess.max-ptime = <int>: maximum packet time in milliseconds, default 20
• sess.name = <str>: a session name
• sess.media = <string>: the media type audio|midi, default audio
• stream.props = {}: properties to be passed to the stream

General options

Options with well-known behavior:

• PW_KEY_REMOTE_NAME
• PW_KEY_AUDIO_FORMAT
• PW_KEY_AUDIO_RATE
• PW_KEY_AUDIO_CHANNELS
• SPA_KEY_AUDIO_POSITION
• PW_KEY_NODE_NAME
• PW_KEY_NODE_DESCRIPTION
• PW_KEY_MEDIA_NAME
• PW_KEY_NODE_GROUP
• PW_KEY_NODE_LATENCY
• PW_KEY_NODE_VIRTUAL
• PW_KEY_MEDIA_CLASS

Example configuration

 context.modules = [
 {   name = libpipewire-module-vban-send
     args = {
         #local.ifname = "eth0"
         #source.ip = "0.0.0.0"
         #destination.ip = "127.0.0.1"
         #destination.port = 6980
         #net.mtu = 1500
         #net.ttl = 1
         #net.loop = false
         #sess.min-ptime = 2
         #sess.max-ptime = 20
         #sess.name = "PipeWire VBAN stream"
         #sess.media = "audio"
         #audio.format = "S16LE"
         #audio.rate = 44100
         #audio.channels = 2
         #audio.position = [ FL FR ]
         stream.props = {
             node.name = "vban-sender"
         }
     }
}
]

Since

0.3.76