[pulseaudio-discuss] Airtunes

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 27.03.08 22:44, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:

> Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > module-tunnel is certainly the worst module you could have
> > picked. It's complicated, full of #ifdefs and doesn't even support all
> > the newest fancy features of the core.
> 
> Well I've only just started looking over it (and completely agree re the
> #ifdefs) so not really done anything yet. Is there a better -sink module
> you'd recommend as a starting point?

Uh. Good question. The pipe sink maybe?

> >> As I hinted above I'll either modify or copy the zeroconf-discover one.
> >> I presume you'd prefer to make a separate module?
> > 
> > Hmm, depends. It's up to you. A #ifdef based solution might be useful,
> > i.e. conditional compilation of the RAOP and module-tunnel parts of
> > zc-discover. That way you'd be able to share a single source and build
> > two seperate modules of it. OTOH conditional compilation is a bit out
> > of fashion these days. The alternative might be to split zc-disocver
> > into three C files, and then compile two of them for one module and
> > then two others for the other modules, if you understand what I mean.
> 
> Yeah I see what you mean. I'll see how it goes as this part is the final
> hurdle and wont be attempted until I get the actual sink loading OK!
> Having only started reading the raop_play code, I'm getting worried I've
> bitten off more than I can chew with all it's RTP and callbacks etc. but
> I'll still take a good crack at it!

RTP is actually a pretty simple protocol. And is it happens we already
have an implementation of RTP in PA, hence you probably can share a
lot of code.

Lennart

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