<s>
PipeWire	B-Application
is	O
a	O
server	O
for	O
handling	O
audio	O
,	O
video	O
streams	B-Architecture
,	O
and	O
hardware	O
on	O
Linux	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
handles	O
multimedia	O
routing	O
and	O
pipeline	B-General_Concept
processing	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2015	O
,	O
Taymans	O
started	O
work	O
on	O
PipeWire	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
According	O
to	O
Red	O
Hat	O
's	O
Christian	O
Schaller	O
,	O
it	O
drew	O
many	O
of	O
its	O
ideas	O
from	O
an	O
early	O
PulseVideo	O
prototype	O
by	O
Manley	O
and	O
builds	O
upon	O
some	O
of	O
the	O
code	O
that	O
was	O
merged	O
into	O
GStreamer	B-Language
due	O
to	O
that	O
effort	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
goal	O
of	O
the	O
project	O
was	O
to	O
improve	O
handling	O
of	O
video	O
on	O
Linux	B-Application
in	O
the	O
same	O
way	O
that	O
PulseAudio	B-Library
improved	O
handling	O
of	O
audio	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Although	O
a	O
separate	O
project	O
from	O
PulseAudio	B-Library
,	O
Taymans	O
initially	O
considered	O
using	O
the	O
name	O
"	O
PulseVideo	O
"	O
for	O
the	O
new	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Initially	O
,	O
Pinos	O
only	O
handled	O
video	O
streams	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
early	O
2017	O
,	O
Taymans	O
had	O
started	O
working	O
on	O
integrating	O
audio	O
streams	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
this	O
time	O
,	O
the	O
name	O
PipeWire	B-Application
was	O
adopted	O
for	O
the	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
November	O
2018	O
,	O
PipeWire	B-Application
was	O
re-licensed	O
from	O
the	O
LGPL	B-Application
to	O
the	B-License
MIT	I-License
License	I-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
April	O
2021	O
,	O
Fedora	O
Linux	B-Application
34	O
became	O
the	O
first	O
Linux	B-Application
distribution	O
to	O
ship	O
PipeWire	B-Application
for	O
audio	O
by	O
default	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
year	O
later	O
,	O
Pop	B-Application
!	I-Application
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
made	O
the	O
default	O
audio	O
server	O
in	O
Ubuntu	B-Operating_System
beginning	O
with	O
version	O
22.10	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
work	O
with	O
sandboxed	O
Flatpak	B-Language
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
provide	O
secure	O
methods	O
for	O
screenshotting	B-Application
and	O
screencasting	B-Protocol
on	O
Wayland	B-Language
compositors	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
unify	O
handling	O
of	O
cases	O
managed	O
by	O
JACK	B-Application
and	O
PulseAudio	B-Library
.	O
</s>
<s>
PipeWire	B-Application
has	O
received	O
much	O
praise	O
,	O
especially	O
among	O
the	O
GNOME	B-Application
and	O
Arch	O
Linux	B-Application
communities	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Particularly	O
as	O
it	O
fixes	O
problems	O
that	O
some	O
PulseAudio	B-Library
users	O
had	O
experienced	O
,	O
including	O
high	O
CPU	O
usage	O
,	O
Bluetooth	O
connection	O
issues	O
,	O
and	O
JACK	B-Application
backend	O
issues	O
.	O
</s>
