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NAME
       libpipewire-module-ffado-driver - FFADO firewire audio driver

DESCRIPTION
       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.

       • remote.name

       • audio.position

       • node.name

       • node.description

       • node.group

       • node.virtual

       • media.class

       • 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
               }
           }
       }
       ]

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