Hi, I tried the pulse cookie method. Here is what I did: - on the local sound server side, I copied ~/.pulse-cookie to the remote sound client to /etc/pulse/pulse-cookie-n900 - on the remote sound client side, I added the following two lines to /etc/pulse/client.conf: default-server = localhost cookie-file = /etc/pulse/pulse-cookie-n900 - on the remote sound client side, I made /etc/pulse/pulse-cookie-n900 permissions 644 - on the local sound server side, I did a ssh -X -R 4713:localhost:4713 <remote-sound-client> "PULSE_LOG=99 pactl stat" The following output of "pactl stat" follows: -------------------------------------------------- Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65472 Trying to connect to localhost:4713... SHM possible: yes Protocol version: remote 16, local 16 Negotiated SHM: no Connection failure: Connection terminated -------------------------------------------------- and pulseaudio daemon reports "protocol error, kicking client" So no luck with cookies either. I could try and upgrade pulseaudio on the local server side, but it is going to be tricky. br, Quinn <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Colin Guthrie <<a href="mailto:gmane@colin.guthr.ie">gmane@colin.guthr.ie</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> 'Twas brillig, and Quinn Plattel at 23/05/11 05:52 did gyre and gimble: <div class="im">> HI. > > Last post on this thread, then I will start a new one. > I managed to cut down the delay considerably by simplifying the commands: > > local sound server: ssh -L 5901:localhost 5901 -L 1234:localhost:1234 > <remote sound client> *parec | nc -l 1234" > local sound server: nc localhost 1234 | pacat > > The advantage with this is that the volume can be controlled manually > with the local sound server's volume control and the delay is cut down > to 3-5 seconds. </div>The commands and procedure I outlined before is working fine and is free from bizarre work arounds. I'm not sure if the protocol error you are getting is coming form a bug in the client side or the server side, but either way it can be easily fixed if it's debugged appropriately. The lack of a cookie can be solved in several ways (e.g. by copying the ~/.pulse_cookie file between machines, or by setting up anonymous authentication when loading the TCP protocol module). I don't think your workaround (while creative) is the right way to go. Far a start parec|pacat has no dynamic sample rate adjustments to compensate for different clocks. Also with the parec command it seems you are connecting to to the remote PA daemon and recording from a monitor source (assuming no real source exists on the machine, the monitor source would be the default) so as to capture the sound which you then play back via pacat on the local system. If that's the case then you're already talking to the wrong PA daemon. As I said in my previous mail any client that runs on the remote system should connect *directly* (via SSH tunnel) to the remote PA. I'm sure it wouldn't take too long to work out the incompatibilities between the two protocol versions, but perhaps the one in Maemo has some kind of customisation applied on top that makes it generally incompatible? In general the protocol is backwards compatible and while I'd have to look, I'm not aware of any specific incompatibilities between 0.9.21 and 0.9.15.... But if you cannot work out the protocol error here, I guess you're work around is the easiest option :s Col -- <div><div></div><div class="h5"> Colin Guthrie gmane(at)<a href="http://colin.guthr.ie" target="_blank">colin.guthr.ie</a> <a href="http://colin.guthr.ie/" target="_blank">http://colin.guthr.ie/</a> Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [<a href="http://www.tribalogic.net/" target="_blank">http://www.tribalogic.net/</a>] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [<a href="http://www.mageia.org/" target="_blank">http://www.mageia.org/</a>] PulseAudio Hacker [<a href="http://www.pulseaudio.org/" target="_blank">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</a>] Trac Hacker [<a href="http://trac.edgewall.org/" target="_blank">http://trac.edgewall.org/</a>] _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de">pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de</a> <a href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss" target="_blank">https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Best regards/Med venlig hilsen, Quinn Plattel