<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Colin Guthrie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gmane@colin.guthr.ie">gmane@colin.guthr.ie</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> In paprefs you should see DLNA support (perhaps it's labelled as rygel.<br> It is via rygel that we support exporting the audio of your laptop as<br> DNLA streams. It requires that you manually load<br> module-http-protocol-tcp (pactl load-module module-http-protocol-tcp)<br> and making sure the firewall is open on it's port (4714 or 4715 IIRC,<br> but please check with netstat -ltp :))<br></blockquote><div><br>The problem is that the PA/Rygel combination only seems to allow the<br>receiver to "pull" music from the server, rather than have the laptop "push" the<br> audio to the receiver. At least I couldn't get the pushing to work, and on the<br>Rygel mailing list they pointed out that PA does the actual streaming so that's<br>where it'll have to be supported. Pulling is okay for TVs but not great for stereos.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im"> </div>As the author of the Airtunes support in PA I will admit it's still<br> kinda lacking. The timing is all a bit messed up and it really needs<br> some love. Now that we support passthrough, we'll have to have a look at<br> getting MP3 support included too, but that really does require us to<br> tidy up the protocol support first (which is pretty hard).<br></blockquote><div><br>Yeah, I noticed the open bugs related to timing. Oh well, maybe I should try a<br>bluetooth setup. Might have issues with range and obstructions but at least it's<br> cheaper than those Airport devices and presumably works well under LInux.<br><br>Thanks for the help, I'll let you know if I can get DLNA to work.<br><br>Aditya<br></div></div>