[pulseaudio-discuss] PulseAudio and Network Audio Devices

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 18.12.07 08:13, Richi Plana (richip at richip.dhs.org) wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 17:29 -0700, Richi Plana wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 22:54 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > > > I'm also noticing an oddity on the two devices. When I enabled
> > > > Multicast/RTP sender on one machine, a virtual sink appeared on the
> > > > Output tab. When I enabled "Simultaenouse output", the simul output
> > > > virtual device appeared. When I did both on the other machine, neither
> > > > virtual output device appeared. Not my main concern right now (getting
> > > > audio to appear on a remote machine is), but I thought I'd mention the
> > > > oddity anyway.
> > > 
> > > paprefs require pulseaudio-module-paprefs installed and
> > > activated. Which should be the default. 
> > 
> > On the machine that I'm noticing the "no change behavior" in,
> > pulseaudio-module-gconf is indeed installed. I guess it's not activated.
> > How does one activate it?
> 
> So I've updated pulseaudio to 0.9.8 and the utils to the latest on
> Fedora rawhide and I'm still not seeing the virtual devices for
> SUmultaneous output and RTP Multicast Sink appearing in pavucontrol even
> though the gconf settings are changing (as shown by gconf-editor).
> 
> Also, with the zeroconf module installed and configured, I'm still not
> seeing the devices across the network.

What kind of network is this? Some WLAN? Closed-source network driver?
They usually have trouble with multicasting. Does avahi-browse -a
work? Does it show a service regsitered via "avahi-publish-service
foobar _foo._tcp 4711" on another machine?

Lennart

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