pipewire vs obs-ndi

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pipewire		obs-ndi
	Project
93	Mentions	57
1,745	Stars	2,974
1.1%	Growth	1.3%
9.9	Activity	7.3
1 day ago	Latest Commit	12 days ago
C	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

pipewire

Posts with mentions or reviews of pipewire. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-16.

PipeWire: Greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2024
Firefox 116 Should Have Experimental PipeWire Camera Support
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jun 2023

If you don't know what PipeWire is (I didn't), it's an audio-video handler - it replaces things like PulseAudio.
https://pipewire.org/
Are we sure that weston/wayland is the way to go?
1 project | /r/linux | 12 May 2023

Damn, your "audio server" seems to disagree with you.
[Linux Gaming] Quelle distribution fournit un pipewire hors boîte?
1 project | /r/enfrancais | 4 May 2023
PipeWire 0.3.66
2 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 16 Feb 2023

PipeWire is a server and user space API to deal with multimedia pipelines. This includes:
PipeWire 0.3.65 released
1 project | /r/linux | 26 Jan 2023
what the hell is a pipewire, alsa, pulseaudio and jack ?
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 15 Jan 2023
Yousican & Linux
1 project | /r/yousician | 20 Dec 2022

I installed and configured pipewire according to the instructions from the Debian website. And let me tell you, it solved all my problems. The sound quality is good enough for practice, latency is very low. Currently, I just mute my guitar in YS, turn on ToneLib, adjust the volume on the system mixer, and play.
PipeWire 0.3.62
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Dec 2022
How to screen capture using ffmpeg on wayland?
3 projects | /r/wayland | 24 Nov 2022

obs-ndi

Posts with mentions or reviews of obs-ndi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-24.

Can I use Elgato Wave Link software over Voicemeeter Banana VBAN? (Sending audio over network)
1 project | /r/streaming | 7 Jun 2023

I using OBS Newtek NDI https://github.com/obs-ndi/obs-ndi to send the screen over network (without capture card).
Dual stream question.
1 project | /r/Twitch | 5 Jun 2023
Looking for help
1 project | /r/obs | 26 May 2023
Keypress overlay to separate streaming pc
1 project | /r/Twitch | 15 May 2023

For receiving NDI in Streamlabs; https://streamlabs.com/content-hub/post/ndi-receiving-setup-in-streamlabs-desktop OBS NDI plugin for use with OBS. OBS-NDI: https://github.com/obs-ndi/obs-ndi
1050ti for stream pc
1 project | /r/obs | 1 May 2023
Two bad hardware = one decent? Help!!
1 project | /r/vtubertech | 16 Apr 2023

For NDI use a gigabit connection or there will be issues. I run Vseeface on my streaming rig while I run my games in my own pc, you can see an example here: https://youtu.be/5xq3p8QvWxQ For NDI: https://github.com/obs-ndi/obs-ndi/releases
Why wont obs recognize my capture card?
1 project | /r/obs | 13 Apr 2023

Do you have the OBS NDI Plugin installed? It's not a default media source. https://github.com/obs-ndi/obs-ndi/releases
Question about Dual PC setups
1 project | /r/obs | 4 Apr 2023
Two PCs for streaming and gaming
1 project | /r/Twitch | 29 Mar 2023
1 Stream controlled on 2 PC's
4 projects | /r/obs | 24 Mar 2023

Current OBS plugin. https://github.com/obs-ndi/obs-ndi/releases/tag/4.11.0

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pipewire and obs-ndi you can also consider the following projects:

noise-suppression-for-voice - Noise suppression plugin based on Xiph's RNNoise

obs-teleport - An OBS Studio plugin for an open NDI-like replacement. Pretty simple, straight forward. No NDI compatibility in any form.

pulseaudio-modules-bt - [Deprecated, see https://github.com/EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt/issues/154] Adds Sony LDAC, aptX, aptX HD, AAC codecs (A2DP Audio) support to PulseAudio on Linux

obsninja - VDO.Ninja is a powerful tool that lets you bring remote video feeds into OBS or other studio software via WebRTC.

pipewire-debian - Upstream Version of pipewire, wireplumber, roc-toolkit & blueman for debian/ubuntu

FFmpeg - Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

easyeffects - Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications

mpv - 🎥 Command line video player

piper - GTK application to configure gaming devices

win-capture-audio - An OBS plugin that allows capture of independant application audio streams on Windows, in a similar fashion to OBS's game capture and Discord's application streaming.

BespokeSynth - Software modular synth

obs-StreamFX - StreamFX is a plugin for OBS® Studio which adds many new effects, filters, sources, transitions and encoders! Be it 3D Transform, Blur, complex Masking, or even custom shaders, you'll find it all here.