xdg-desktop-portal VS pipewire

Compare xdg-desktop-portal vs pipewire and see what are their differences.

pipewire

Mirror of the PipeWire repository (see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/) (by PipeWire)
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xdg-desktop-portal pipewire
154 93
515 1,729
4.1% 0.6%
9.4 9.9
7 days ago about 15 hours ago
C C
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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xdg-desktop-portal

Posts with mentions or reviews of xdg-desktop-portal. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-29.

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing xdg-desktop-portal and pipewire you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

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

obs-ndi - NewTek NDI integration for OBS Studio

gamescope - SteamOS session compositing window manager [Moved to: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope]

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

piper - GTK application to configure gaming devices

BespokeSynth - Software modular synth

upgrade - Utility for upgrading Pop!_OS and its recovery partition to new releases.

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

gtk-layer-shell - A library to create panels and other desktop components for Wayland using the Layer Shell protocol

BespokeSynth - Software modular synth [Moved to: https://github.com/BespokeSynth/BespokeSynth]