PipeWire is a server and user space API to deal with multimedia pipelines. This includes:

- Making available sources of video (such as from a capture devices or application provided streams) and multiplexing this with clients. - Accessing sources of video for consumption. - Generating graphs for audio and video processing.

This metapackage makes PipeWire available for programs of the same architecture, and provides the systemd user service necessary to run pipewire on-demand.