[pulseaudio-discuss] Controlling where module-rtp-send sends multicast packets?

[Matthew Patterson]

I just thought I would check back on this. Last night I reworked my 
control app and pulse configuration. Now I can use either rtp or the 
combine module to perform the audio matrix switching. There is 
definitely more load on the system, even when using the combine module 
with the default resampling. The syncing is definitely better than the 
rtp method, but only marginally. When I change to a better syncing alg I 
can't really test anything because my system screeches to a halt with so 
much cpu load! I am working on a slower laptop for dev so that is not 
surprising.

The important part is my router doesn't puke on all the multicast data, 
so I think I will stick with this for the moment.

In case anyone was curious, here's a snippet for my default config. I 
remap my 8 channel audio card to 4 stereo cards, naming each one a 
zone#. Then I combine everything and perform the mute adjustments from 
my python/php app.

# we leave only one of the outputs unmuted at startup, that is our 
player selection
load-module module-combine sink_name=p1 master=zone1 
slaves=zone2,zone3,zone4
#set-sink-input-mute 4 1
set-sink-input-mute 5 1
set-sink-input-mute 6 1
set-sink-input-mute 7 1
load-module module-combine sink_name=p2 master=zone1 
slaves=zone2,zone3,zone4
set-sink-input-mute 8 1
#set-sink-input-mute 9 1
set-sink-input-mute 10 1
set-sink-input-mute 11 1
load-module module-combine sink_name=p3 master=zone1 
slaves=zone2,zone3,zone4
set-sink-input-mute 12 1
set-sink-input-mute 13 1
#set-sink-input-mute 14 1
set-sink-input-mute 15 1
load-module module-combine sink_name=p4 master=zone1 
slaves=zone2,zone3,zone4
set-sink-input-mute 16 1
set-sink-input-mute 17 1
set-sink-input-mute 18 1
#set-sink-input-mute 19 1


Thanks for your help Tanu!

Matt



Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 08:27:39AM -0800, Matt Patterson wrote:
>   
>> I thought about this route, but the issue is I don't want interruptions  
>> in the rooms already listening to music. Maybe if feed all four input  
>> sources into split out sinks (splitting each input into 4 null-sink  
>> outputs in the end), I could then attach the final sound card outputs on  
>> demand without interruption to the other rooms listening... I'm not  
>> quite sure how the layout would work.
>>
>> You may be on to something here! Let me look at this and do some  
>> investigation.
>>     
>
> Fun little exercise! Maybe you already solved it yourself,
> but if not, here's a spoiler:
>
> Create one tunnel sink per machine. Create one combined sink
> per stream, each using all four tunnels.
>
> Now each combined sink has four streams, each going to one
> tunnel. That means 16 streams (plus the 4 mpd streams). By
> muting these 16 streams as needed you have full control over
> what goes where, without any drop-outs.
>
>   
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