<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Otherwise wouldn't you have problems maintaining sync and buffering on the network? "Muted" just means silent PCM audio, not that no audio flows. One could probably implement "silence compression" such that a minimal timing stream flowed during mute periods, but that sounds like a lower priority issue, and they tend to get cut :) Matt Jim Duda wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:480A4B03.60404@duda.tzo.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I think I understand #2. I believe all behave the same, the fact that I have multiple systems sending RTP was causing confusion. The only real question is: Is is unreasonable to expect the RTP traffic to be silent when an RTP source is muted? Jim Jim Duda wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I have 4 linux machines on my local network using pulse audio. All of which are running pulseaudio 0.9.8. Each has rtp-send and rtp-recv installed. By default, each rtp-send is muted. Question #1: rtp-send mute When rtp-send is muted, I expect that no rtp traffic will be sent. Is this a correct assumption? This doesn't appear true, and I am surprised by this. I have one machine with a combined-sink, with one out being rtp-send. When playing any audio to this combined-sink, I get a constant stream of network bandwidth on the order of 192K bytes/second. When I stop the audio, the network bandwidth goes down into the noise level. The default.pa for this machine is: This machine is a server which runs with --system mode. load-sample-lazy pulse-hotplug /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav load-module module-hal-detect load-module module-cli-protocol-tcp load-module module-http-protocol-tcp load-module module-esound-protocol-unix load-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-anonymous=1 load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-anonymous=1 load-module module-zeroconf-publish load-module module-null-sink sink_name=sphinx_record description="Sphinx Recording Source" load-module module-null-sink sink_name=sphinx_playback description="Sphinx Playback Source" load-module module-rtp-recv load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp format=s16le channels=2 rate=44100 description="RTP Multicast Sink" load-module module-rtp-send source=rtp.monitor load-module module-combine sink_name=combined master=alsa_output.pci_1274_5880_alsa_playback_0 slaves=alsa_output.pci_8086_24d5_alsa_playback_0,rtp,sphinx_playback load-module module-volume-restore load-module module-default-device-restore load-module module-rescue-streams load-module module-suspend-on-idle load-module module-gconf set-default-sink combined set-default-source alsa_input.pci_1274_5880_alsa_capture_0 set-sink-mute rtp 1 Question #2: one machine acts different One machine appears to be sending rtp traffic when rtp-send is included., even when no audio is playing. When this one machine has rtp-send installed, and muted, and no audio is plaing, I see a constant stream of network traffic on the order of 192K bytes/second. This machine is a standard desktop which doesn't run with --system What could be causing this condition, independent of question #1 above? I have confirmed that no streams are playing on this machine, but yet, I see the 192K bytes of traffic. The traffic comes and goes as a function of including rtp-send on this machine. The default.pa for this machine is: load-sample-lazy pulse-hotplug /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav load-module module-hal-detect load-module module-esound-protocol-unix load-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-anonymous=1 load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-anonymous=1 load-module module-http-protocol-tcp load-module module-zeroconf-publish load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp format=s16le channels=2 rate=44100 description="RTP Multicast Sink" load-module module-rtp-send source=rtp.monitor load-module module-rtp-recv load-module module-volume-restore load-module module-default-device-restore load-module module-rescue-streams load-module module-suspend-on-idle load-module module-x11-publish load-module module-gconf set-sink-mute rtp 1 Thanks for any insight. Jim </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de">pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss">https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>