[pulseaudio-discuss] Multiple remote sinks

[Svein Halvor Halvorsen]

Colin Guthrie wrote:
> First of all padevchooser is dead! It's use is generally not promoted.

I don't think this is clear from the documentation.
In fact, it says that it works "perfectly". It should say "deprecated"


> On each of the machines that you actually run stuff on (e.g. your 
> desktop) you want to run the mozule-zeroconf-discover module (you can 
> enable this via papref's "Make discovered network sinks available 
> locally" (or something like that!).
> 
> This will add a new sink to your local pulseaudio that will be treated 
> just like another local sound card.
> 
> When you play sound on your local machine, simply fire up pavucontrol 
> and then find the stream you want to move to the kitchen, and either 
> right click or use the little drop down menu thing to select the kitchen 
> sink (pun fully intended ;))

I will look into this. Thanks!


> Sadly there is no handy gui way to output to both sinks at the same 
> time... you can do it but you'll need to load a module-combine with the 
> correct sink names to create another local virtual sink that copies 
> audio to both devices. This will send the same data to both sinks which 
> you could argue is not efficient. An alternative to that is to use the 
> RTP modules to multicast the data instead.

(44100 * 16 * 2) / 8 = 176 kBps pr. server.
My local network can handle this :-)

But prey tell: I'm very interested in the RTP solution. Will this make 
vlc running on Windows able to output to the networked sinks as well?


	sv.