[pulseaudio-discuss] Multi-User Streaming Audio, Is It Possible?

[Maarten Bosmans]

2011/10/6 Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr>:
> On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 13:49 +0200, Maarten Bosmans wrote:
>> 2011/10/6 Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr>:
>> [...] I made a mistake, that wasn't paman I was talking about but another
>> > tool, with a little icon sitting in the systray to quickly select one of
>> > the available zeroconf servers. Really handy, but I can't seem to find
>> > it anymore in my debian install, does anyone remember its name ?
>>
>> I think we vowed never to mention that tool (pad*******er) again on
>> this list. ;-)
>> It has been deprecated for a long time now and how it handles things
>> isn't compatible with how we set up things nowadays.
>
> It's a shame. In my setup, I have an HTPC connected to a stereo. All
> individual PCs have their own sound hardware, but sometimes I want to
> use the stereo for sound output, and padev*****er is perfect for that
> purpose: 2 clicks and the sound moves to the HTPC.

IIRC, that is two click and a restart of the audio-playing application, right?

> Is there another (recommended) way of doing do now ?

Enable tunnels. You can do this in paprefs, but that gives you all the
devices on the network.
For only a tunnel to the HTPC, set module-tunnel-sink up manually.

Now you can switch from local playback to htpc on the go.

Maarten

> Thanks,
>        Xav
>
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