[pulseaudio-discuss] How to redirect pulse audio through ssh?

Sun May 22 07:49:54 PDT 2011

Hi,

Here are my results....

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think you're maybe getting a little confused by client and server in
> terms of how things work here (perhaps not, as I've not thoroughly read
> all the many posts in this thread).
>

You are right.  I used the terminology because of the way I am ssh'ing from
and to.

2. Open a terminal and type: "xprop -root | grep PULSE_COOKIE" Ensure
> this has some output. If it does not then chances are the
> "start-pulseaudio-x11" script was not run at login (or you have
> restarted your PA server after logging in). Try just running
> "start-pulseaudio-x11" and see if that fixes it.
>

"xprop -root | grep PULSE_COOKIE" does not turn up any results on the local
sound server or on the remote sound client side
"dpkg -L pulseaudio | grep start-pulseaudio-x11" does not turn up any
results on the local sound server side but
it does turn up results on the remote sound client side.

> 3. Ensure that the tcp native protocol module is loaded. "pacmd
> list-modules | grep module-native-protocol-tcp" If it is not loaded,
> then simply type: "pactl load-module module-native-protocol-tcp"
>

pacmd gives the error "No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as
session daemon." on the local sound server side but
I managed to get around this by:
# stop pulseaudio
# pulseaudio --system --high-priority -C

and then at the pulseaudio command line: list-modules
Here is the module:
-------------------------------
    index: 18
    name: <module-native-protocol-tcp>
    argument: <auth-anonymous=1>
    used: -1
    load once: no
    properties:
        module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
        module.description = "Native protocol (TCP sockets)"
        module.version = "0.9.15"
-------------------------------

> 4. SSH to your other machine:  ssh -X -R4713:localhost:4713 OTHERMACHINE
>
> If you get a warning:
> Warning: remote port forwarding failed for listen port 4713
> then chances are there is a PA daemon running there already, or you've
> SSH'ed twice. If the former, just change the *first* instance of 4713 to
> a random number of your choice (>1024).
>

No problems there.

>
> 5. On this remote machine, check your cookie is available via the xprop
> command show in step 2. If X11 forwarding is working properly, it should
> show up fine.
>

"xprop -root | grep PULSE_COOKIE" does not give any results on the remote
machine.

> 6. Set the PULSE_SERVER variable to the forwarded tunnel port.
>  export PULSE_SERVER=localhost:4713
> (or the port number you picked in step 4 if different)
>
> 7. Confirm it's all working: PULSE_LOG=99 pactl stat
>
> Results of "PULSE_LOG=99 pactl stat" on the remote sound client side:
-----------------------------------------
Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total size
is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65472
Trying to connect to localhost:4713...
SHM possible: yes
Protocol version: remote 16, local 16
Negotiated SHM: no
Connection failure: Connection terminated
-----------------------------------------

Results on the local sound server side:
------------------------------------------
E: protocol-native.c: protocol error, kicking client
------------------------------------------

> Done!!
>
> So in this setup, the cookie used for authentication is forwarded
> automatically via piggy backing on to X11 connections but as you cannot
> connect directly to the machine we've had to override the PULSE_SERVER
> variable to go over the SSH tunnel.
>
> Below is the output from my session where I run these exact commands
> (note the host name in the pactl stat at the end).
>
> HTHs
>
> Col
>
>
> [colin at jimmy ~]$ hostname
> jimmy
> [colin at jimmy ~]$ xprop -root | grep PULSE_COOKIE
> PULSE_COOKIE(STRING) = "71eb0d3d53819c42957ce9......"
> [colin at jimmy ~]$ pacmd list-modules | grep module-native-protocol-tcp
>        name: <module-native-protocol-tcp>
> [colin at jimmy ~]$ ssh -X -R 5555:localhost:4713 mediacentre
> Last login: Sat May 21 18:51:40 2011 from jimmy.local
> [media@(Media)centre ~]$ xprop -root | grep PULSE_COOKIE
> PULSE_COOKIE(STRING) = "71eb0d3d53819c42957ce9......"
> [media@(Media)centre ~]$ export PULSE_SERVER=localhost:5555
> [media@(Media)centre ~]$ PULSE_LOG=99 pactl stat
> Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total
> size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65496
> Trying to connect to localhost:5555...
> SHM possible: no
> Protocol version: remote 21, local 16
> Negotiated SHM: no
> Currently in use: 2 blocks containing 149.9 KiB bytes total.
> Allocated during whole lifetime: 1220055 blocks containing 1.6 GiB bytes
> total.
> Sample cache size: 86.0 KiB
> User name: colin
> Host Name: jimmy
> Server Name: pulseaudio
> Server Version: 1.0.0-0.354.1.csg1
> Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
> Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
> Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
> Default Source: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
> Cookie: d7756be2
> [media@(Media)centre ~]$
>
>
>
> --
>
> Colin Guthrie
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> http://colin.guthr.ie/
>
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