[pulseaudio-discuss] Make discoverable PA network sound devices available locally results in huge network traffic

Brian J. Murrell brian at interlinx.bc.ca
Thu Jan 20 09:45:39 PST 2011


Maarten Bosmans <mkbosmans <at> gmail.com> writes: 
> 
> Well, that's the static configuration script loaded at the start of
> the daemon. As noted in the comment just above that line, ticking the
> box in paprefs can also load this module.

Oh, well, there you go then.  :-)
 
> If you are able to stream audio over the network, obviously some
> modules facilitating that are loaded somehow.

Indeed.

> Can you provide the
> output of "pactl list" on both machines (clearly indicating which is
> which)?

laptop (source of audio):
  http://brian.interlinx.bc.ca/brian-laptop-pactl_list.txt

workstation (destination of audio):
  http://brian.interlinx.bc.ca/pc-pactl_list.txt

> Most helpful would be the output when there is no music playing, but
> you are seeing high network utilisation.

That is the case in those two lists.

> with pactl list, look for a loaded rtp module.

They both appear to have module-rtp-recv loaded.

> That most certainly looks like raw audio bitrate.

Indeed, but what?

b.





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