PipeWire  1.0.0
FFADO firewire audio driver

The ffado-driver module provides a source or sink using the libffado library for reading and writing to firewire audio devices.

Module Name

libpipewire-module-ffado-driver

Module Options

  • driver.mode: the driver mode, sink|source|duplex, default duplex
  • ffado.devices: array of devices to open, default "hw:0"
  • ffado.period-size: period size,default 1024
  • ffado.period-num: period number,default 3
  • ffado.sample-rate: sample-rate, default 48000
  • ffado.slave-mode: slave mode
  • ffado.snoop-mode: snoop mode
  • ffado.verbose: ffado verbose level
  • latency.internal.input: extra input latency in frames
  • latency.internal.output: extra output latency in frames
  • source.props: Extra properties for the source filter.
  • sink.props: Extra properties for the sink filter.

General options

Options with well-known behavior.

Example configuration of a duplex sink/source

1 context.modules = [
2 { name = libpipewire-module-ffado-driver
3  args = {
4  #driver.mode = duplex
5  #ffado.devices = [ "hw:0" ]
6  #ffado.period-size = 1024
7  #ffado.period-num = 3
8  #ffado.sample-rate = 48000
9  #ffado.slave-mode = false
10  #ffado.snoop-mode = false
11  #ffado.verbose = 0
12  #latency.internal.input = 0
13  #latency.internal.output = 0
14  #audio.position = [ FL FR ]
15  source.props = {
16  # extra sink properties
17  }
18  sink.props = {
19  # extra sink properties
20  }
21  }
22 }
23 ]