[pulseaudio-discuss] hopelessly newbish question

[Chris Ribe]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Chris Ribe <chrisribe at gmail.com> wrote:

> I beg a thousand pardons for asking such a simple question, but I have been
> googling for hours to no avail.
>
> I have a moderately simple two computer PulseAudio setup.  I have a
> workstation that hosts all of my audio generating applications and a low
> power laptop connected to my stereo that acts as PulseAudio server.
>
> The laptop actually sits between the audio out of my TV and the TV input on
> my amp/receiver.  This lets me use the laptop soundcard to mix the output of
> my workstation and TV for playback.
>
> That all works well enough.  I am encounting problems when I try to work
> jack and qsynth into the mix.  I have a midi keyboard attached to my
> workstation.  I'd like to play it with fluidsynth and have the output sent
> to the pulseaudio server  on the laptop.
>
> I feel like I am most of the way there.  I have pulseaudio-module-jack
> installed on the workstation.  I have jackd running with the output of
> qsynth being sent to "PulseAudio JACK source."  With PA Volume Control
> connected to the laptop's sound server,  "Jack source" shows in the Input
> Devices list.
>
> Now, how do I go about listening to that source?
> --
> Chris Ribe
> IT Specialist
> Pandion Systems, Inc.
> www.pandionsystems.com
> (352) 505 1829
> cribe at pandionsystems.com
>
>

Figured it out, thanks to a very recent post to this list:

First, I used pactl to lookup device numbers for the jack source and the
default output.

Then, on the server:

$ parec -d 34 | pacat -d 0

Unfortunately, the latency is horrible (1+ sec form keypress to sound) , so
I won't be using this solution.
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