[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 44777] module-rtp-send floods the network with UDP packets, crippling it severely

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44777

--- Comment #18 from Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> ---
(In reply to freedesktop from comment #17)
> Lowering the rate is possibly not a good idea as it results in worse
> quality. The format is by default "s16be" about which I have no idea what a
> different format would help. I do not know if the data can somehow be
> compress further, because this would definitely be an idea, but I dont know
> the procols internal.

The data can certainly be compressed. I don't know if you've ever compared the
sizes of mp3 and wav files. Typical compressed audio, when using a lossy codec,
requires perhaps one tenth of the bandwidth that uncompressed audio requires,
without too much effect on the audio quality.

> So the only left option is to solve the routing. For my personal setup there
> is no way to fix this on the router side, so the sender pulse module needs
> to take care of it. Using an ip as destination works perfectly and would be
> an option to use (which should be added to paprefs). However I tried that
> the last days and due to dhcp my receiver always gets a new IP and using
> hostnames would be a better idea.
> 
> But the module does not seem to support hostnames. So I am wondering if this
> could be fixed quite simple or needs a whole more work to do.

Changing module-rtp-send to support hostnames doesn't sound terribly
complicated.

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