[pulseaudio-discuss] Few questions about pulseaudio

[Maxim Levitsky]

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 12:48 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Maxim Levitsky at 30/01/09 11:33 did gyre and gimble:
> > Networking supports seems to be very basic (at least with padevchooser)
> 
> padevchooser is dead. Don't use it.
> 
> Using an avahi-enabled network and the preferences in paprefs are all 
> you need to make things work nicely (provided you disable all auth).
> 
> > I could only connect to remote server and use it, but what if I want to
> > record from remote server, and play localy?
> 
> So record the mic input of a remote server? You can do that, but it's 
> not a common use case.
> 
> > Also list of network servers doesn't seem to update often, and the
> > program crashes a lot.
> 
> Like I say padevchooser is rubbish and dead. It's no longer being 
> developed. It has numerous design flaws. Using the *-discover modules in 
> the pulse server which loads the tunnel-* modules automatically means 
> the remove devices appear just like local ones in pavucontrol. This is 
> the way forward

You mean that app talks to local PA that talks to remote PA?


pavucontrol doesn't seem to honor the default device I set in
output/input devices, recording still defaults to local device,
unless I move the streams explicitly, which is annoying.

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky

PS: at least pavucontrol isn't dead?