[pulseaudio-discuss] MacOS X Support

[Stephen Lee]

> Jep, I have plans to continue my work on the OS X port, and finish the virtual audio driver I was working on. Currently, this is all just prove of concept, but I'm confident that it will be really useful once it's finished.
> 
> At the moment, I am travelling, but once I'm back in some weeks, I will hopefully find some time to catch up with this project. I'll post updates on this list, of course.
> 
> > >> Generally, what's the plan for being able to manipulate native
> > >> MacOS X clients/streams via PA?  It'd be great to replace the
> > >> AirTunes (AirPlay) functionality that Apple offers.  If this
> > >> functionality is still a work in progress, is there a workaround?
> > >
> > > The workaround would be to use an audio player that output to
> > > PulseAudio, like vlc, rhythmbox, banshee, amarok, though I don't
> > > have a clue whether these are ported to OSX and are able to use
> > > libpulse there.
> >
> > While I don't know, I strongly suspect that VLC on mac is not compiled
> > with PA support....
> 
> No, that would't make sense either. What we need is  generic way to get audio from all CoreAudio applications, without modifing them. I'm working on this, stay tuned :-)
> 
You'll be my hero if you make a virtual audio driver.  Now, if that isn't incentive enough, then I don't know what is!  :)
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