[pulseaudio-discuss] Multi-User Streaming Audio, Is It Possible?

[Xavier Bestel]

On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 10:48 +0200, Maarten Bosmans wrote:
> 2011/10/6 Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr>:
> > On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 13:49 +0200, Maarten Bosmans wrote:
> >> 2011/10/6 Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr>:
> >> [...] I made a mistake, that wasn't paman I was talking about but another
> >> > tool, with a little icon sitting in the systray to quickly select one of
> >> > the available zeroconf servers. Really handy, but I can't seem to find
> >> > it anymore in my debian install, does anyone remember its name ?
> >>
> >> I think we vowed never to mention that tool (pad*******er) again on
> >> this list. ;-)
> >> It has been deprecated for a long time now and how it handles things
> >> isn't compatible with how we set up things nowadays.
> >
> > It's a shame. In my setup, I have an HTPC connected to a stereo. All
> > individual PCs have their own sound hardware, but sometimes I want to
> > use the stereo for sound output, and padev*****er is perfect for that
> > purpose: 2 clicks and the sound moves to the HTPC.
> 
> IIRC, that is two click and a restart of the audio-playing application, right?
> 
> > Is there another (recommended) way of doing do now ?
> 
> Enable tunnels. You can do this in paprefs, but that gives you all the
> devices on the network.
> For only a tunnel to the HTPC, set module-tunnel-sink up manually.
> 
> Now you can switch from local playback to htpc on the go.

I did it with paprefs, it's way easier to reproduce for my g/f :)
Strange thing: the HTPC's daemon was unreachable locally, I had to
configure it explicitly with
load-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-anonymous=1
to have local apps output sound.

And now streams can move even while playing. Neat !

Thanks,

	Xav