FFADO firewire audio driver

The ffado-driver module provides a source or sink using the libffado library for reading and writing to firewire audio devices.

Module Name

libpipewire-module-ffado-driver

Module Options

• driver.mode: the driver mode, sink|source|duplex, default duplex
• ffado.devices: array of devices to open, default "hw:0"
• ffado.period-size: period size,default 1024. A value of 0 will use the graph duration.
• ffado.period-num: period number,default 3
• ffado.sample-rate: sample-rate, default 48000. A value of 0 will use the graph rate.
• ffado.slave-mode: slave mode
• ffado.snoop-mode: snoop mode
• ffado.verbose: ffado verbose level
• ffado.rtprio: ffado realtime priority, this is by default the PipeWire server priority + 5
• ffado.realtime: ffado realtime mode. this requires correctly configured rlimits to acquire FIFO scheduling at the ffado.rtprio priority
• latency.internal.input: extra input latency in frames
• latency.internal.output: extra output latency in frames
• source.props: Extra properties for the source filter
• sink.props: Extra properties for the sink filter

General options

Options with well-known behavior.

• PW_KEY_REMOTE_NAME
• SPA_KEY_AUDIO_POSITION
• PW_KEY_NODE_NAME
• PW_KEY_NODE_DESCRIPTION
• PW_KEY_NODE_GROUP
• PW_KEY_NODE_VIRTUAL
• PW_KEY_MEDIA_CLASS
• PW_KEY_TARGET_OBJECT to specify the remote node.name or serial.id to link to

Example configuration of a duplex sink/source

# ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/my-ffado-driver.conf
 
context.modules = [
{   name = libpipewire-module-ffado-driver
    args = {
        #driver.mode       = duplex
        #ffado.devices     = [ "hw:0" ]
        #ffado.period-size = 1024
        #ffado.period-num  = 3
        #ffado.sample-rate = 48000
        #ffado.slave-mode  = false
        #ffado.snoop-mode  = false
        #ffado.verbose     = 0
        #ffado.rtprio      = 65
        #ffado.realtime    = true
        #latency.internal.input  = 0
        #latency.internal.output = 0
        #audio.position    = [ FL FR ]
        source.props = {
            # extra sink properties
        }
        sink.props = {
            # extra sink properties
        }
    }
}
]