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

[Maarten Bosmans]

2011/10/12 Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr>:
> 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.

You should run pulse and the apps as the same (non-root) user.

> And now streams can move even while playing. Neat !
>
> Thanks,
>
>        Xav
>
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