[pulseaudio-discuss] no clue how to downsample network audio stream + some minor issues

[Colin Guthrie]

Hi,

'Twas brillig, and vitaminx at 26/11/09 03:27 did gyre and gimble:
> I'm pretty new to pulseaudio and after some days of reading manuals i'm
> actually stuck with 3 things:
> 
> - i have a media server running pulseaudio and i want to stream audio to
> it. works pretty well so far, but my bandwidth is quite low for the
> moment so i want to downsample the sound *only* when i use the tunnel
> sink.
> i'm stuck here, i don't know where to configure that. daemon.conf
> (default-sample-rate) doesn't seem to be the right place because it
> resamples the sound locally as well - what i don't want.

See http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/Modules#DeviceDrivers

The module-tunnel-sink module should take a rate= argument. There is no 
GUI tool to configure this, but if you enable it via paprefs, you can 
hack it into the mix using gconf-editor (for now at least - I am 
intending on changing this eventually).

FWIW, some kind of tunnel compression technology has been mooted in the 
past and will likely eventually make it's way into PA, but there are 
several other things that are further up the priority list, so I 
wouldn't hold your breath for too long! :p

> - using alsamixer i'm getting a new pulseaudio device by default. that's
> cool - i thought - so i could map my multimedia keys to amixer to
> control the volumes... with no success, because alsamixer shows me the
> volume bar but it doesn't let me change it. why is that and can i enable
> it somehow?

You can use it, but you have to use the numbers 0-9... for some unknown 
reason (read: no ones really be bothered enough to seriously look) the 
arrow keys don't work!

"amixer set Master +10%"

Should get your your volume adjustment.

HTH

Col


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