VBAN receiver

The vban-recv module creates a PipeWire source that receives audio and midi VBAN packets.

Module Name

libpipewire-module-vban-recv

Module Options

Options specific to the behavior of this module

• local.ifname = <str>: interface name to use
• source.ip = <str>: the source ip address, default 127.0.0.1
• source.port = <int>: the source port
• node.always-process = <bool>: true to receive even when not running
• sess.latency.msec = <str>: target network latency in milliseconds, default 100
• sess.ignore-ssrc = <bool>: ignore SSRC, default false
• sess.media = <string>: the media type audio|midi|opus, default audio
• stream.props = {}: properties to be passed to the stream

General options

Options with well-known behavior:

• PW_KEY_REMOTE_NAME
• PW_KEY_AUDIO_FORMAT
• PW_KEY_AUDIO_RATE
• PW_KEY_AUDIO_CHANNELS
• SPA_KEY_AUDIO_POSITION
• PW_KEY_MEDIA_NAME
• PW_KEY_MEDIA_CLASS
• PW_KEY_NODE_NAME
• PW_KEY_NODE_DESCRIPTION
• PW_KEY_NODE_GROUP
• PW_KEY_NODE_LATENCY
• PW_KEY_NODE_VIRTUAL

Example configuration

context.modules = [
{   name = libpipewire-module-vban-recv
    args = {
        #local.ifname = eth0
        #source.ip = 127.0.0.1
        #source.port = 6980
        sess.latency.msec = 100
        #sess.ignore-ssrc = false
        #node.always-process = false
        #sess.media = "audio"
        #audio.format = "S16LE"
        #audio.rate = 44100
        #audio.channels = 2
        #audio.position = [ FL FR ]
        stream.props = {
           #media.class = "Audio/Source"
           node.name = "vban-receiver"
        }
    }
}
]

Since

0.3.76