PipeWire


PipeWire is a software for handling audio and video streams and hardware on Linux. It was created by Wim Taymans while he was working at Red Hat. It is a server for multimedia routing and pipeline processing.
Some of its goals are:
Initially the project was called PulseVideo. Later on, the name Pinos was used. One of the initial goals was to improve handling of video on Linux the same way PulseAudio improved handling of audio. Ideas for the project were derived from by William Manley. As Christian Schaller says:
It is also worth noting that it draws many of its ideas from an early prototype by William Manley called PulseVideo and builds upon some of the code that was merged into GStreamer due to that effort.

On November, 2018, PipeWire has been re-licensed under MIT License.