[pulseaudio-discuss] Tunnel Sink Question

[Colin Guthrie]

Jim Duda wrote:
> The documentation for tunnel sink says:
> 
> Tunnel a remote sink/source to a local "ghost" sink/source. Requires a running PulseAudio daemon on the remote server 
> with module-native-protocol-tcp loaded. It's probably a better idea to connect to the remote sink/source directly since 
> some buffer control is lost through this tunneling.
> 
> Can anyone expand on "It's probably a better idea to connect to the remote sink/source directly"?  What specifically 
> does this mean to connect directly.  Is this referring to using the alsa-pulse plugin and attaching to some remote sink 
> using the "server", "device", and "sink" parameters in the .asoundrc file?


You can do e.g.:

PULSE_SERVER=otherhost paplay /path/to/sound.wav

Same applied for all pulse clients (alsa routing included).

e.g.

PULSE_SERVER=otherhost amarok

works too.

HTHs

Col