# Prepare for Pipewire

URL: /show/linux-unplugged/272/
> The lead developer of PipeWire Wim Taymans joins us to discuss Linux’s multimedia past, and its exciting future. They promise to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux.

- Show: [LINUX Unplugged](/show/linux-unplugged/)
- Episode: 272
- Date: 2018-10-23
- Hosts: chris, wes
- Guests: wimtaymans
- Duration: 00:58:28
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/f31a453c-fa15-491f-8618-3f71f1d565e5/66372ff7-18f6-4ed9-9a66-e164922e9047.mp3
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/yMdV3O58U_I





### Episode Links

  * [JACK Audio Connection Kit|Home](http://jackaudio.org/ "JACK Audio Connection Kit|Home")
  * [GetJacked · GitHub](https://github.com/JupiterBroadcasting/GetJacked "GetJacked · GitHub") — Some simple scripts to build a "Studio in a Box" with JACK.
  * [PipeWire](https://pipewire.org/ "PipeWire") — PipeWire is a project that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. 
  * [PipeWire Wiki](https://github.com/PipeWire/pipewire/wiki "PipeWire Wiki")
  * [Launching Pipewire! ](https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2017/09/19/launching-pipewire/ "Launching Pipewire! ")
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