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

[Brian J. Murrell]

Colin Guthrie <gmane <at> colin.guthr.ie> writes: 
> 
> Actually there is. it's a flag when opening the sync for recording, that
> only does PEAK detect rather than a full read.

Ahh.  Nice.

> This should be done in pavucontrol,

It seems it's not, at least the version that's on Ubuntu 10.10.  Or if it is, 
it's way heavy, at 2-3Mb/s for just peak readings.

> but IIRC it's not done in pavumeter
> (because it's really old).

Yeah, it was pavucontrol I was using, not pavumeter.

> I could probably add a command line switch that disables the vumeters
> easily enough.

A GUI widget would be more useful I think so that one could twiddle it without 
having to drop to a command line.

But even more useful still would be to just use the peak reading mode and/or 
make 
the peak reading mode not consume 2-3Mb/s of bandwidth.

Cheers,
b.