[pulseaudio-discuss] Sending audio from source to multiple sinks dynamically

[Matthew Patterson]

I will try and write something up in plain text and then we can decide 
where it is best to place it. Is it possible to get a git tree to dump 
the code in? My code is a very rough proof of concept in that it is 
poorly written and not extensible, BUT it works really well. I would 
love to have the time/help to clean it up with some proper development 
standards (I'm a C/C++/C# coder, I don't even know what the proper 
standards are for python/php :) ) !

Matt


Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Matthew Patterson at 16/06/09 04:09 did gyre and 
> gimble:
>> I built exactly what you are asking for about a year ago and have 
>> been using it A LOT ever since. I currently have 6 zones (5 sets of 
>> speakers + icecast output) and 4 mpd instances. I also have a very 
>> rudimentary interface to allow any mpd instance to play its sound out 
>> of any zone (or multiple zones, synced).
>>
>> I warn you the code is hacky, but perhaps with someone interested in 
>> the problem it could be cleaned up and turned into a proper open 
>> source project. It is also based on 0.9.10 and because it works so 
>> well (like it has NEVER crashed) I haven't ever upgraded anything 
>> except MPD to get replaygain support.
>>
>> Email me directly if you are interested.
>
> For a while now Matt I've been interested in creating a "Recipes" 
> section on the PA website so talk about more advanced uses of PA. It 
> would be great if you could write up a blog article or similar and 
> then we can link it on the PA website. Or feel free to create a page 
> directly on the PA website if you like!! If you don't have time, don't 
> worry. I completely appreciate the effort involved in writing up these 
> things :)
>
> Col
>