The Red Hat Development Team He does not stop working hard from updates and support, to the focus of creating new tools for the improvement of the Linux ecosystem. Such is that they have an ambitious new project called Pipewire.
Aims to improve audio and video handling in Linux. Pipewire was born under the initiative that it could support audio and video in a single process in a synchronized way and this idea was created by the hand of Wim Taymans co-creator of GStreamer.
One of the big challenges facing the Pipewire project will be the synchronization of audio and video over the same process, as I was used to working in GStreamer.
In this way it is sure that the audio and the video work well together, since this way it would be much easier for Frameworks like GStreamer and therefore they would require much less heavy work to make it work.
The momentum of This new tool will have special emphasis on supporting Wayland and FlatpakThey want to promote the latter as a future standard technology within GNU / Linux.
Within the future plans that the project has is to include decoders based on ffmpeg and demuxers to create reproduction pipelines. As well as adding support to the Chrome and Firefox browsers so that you can share your Wayland desktop through systems like Blue Jeans.
Pipewire development
As has been said, the project is still in the development phase since it has had several time in the tests of this. With which various functionalities have been polished, on which Wayland has been focused, such is the power to handle the screenshot on it since under X it is very insecure.
That is why work was done on the creation of an API in order to support both screen capture and single frame capture, local desktop recording and remote access protocols.
Moment the project will begin to take hold in Fedora Workstation 27 beta where you can try to start contributing with the detection of bugs and you can continue polishing.
If you want to know a little more about the project you can check its official page.
If it comes from redhat it sure has some dependency on systemd
Pipewire in July 2021 just DOES NOT WORK.