[pulseaudio-discuss] Streaming between two WinXP machines

[Arun Raghavan]

On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 19:19 -0400, Dave Horoschak wrote:
> 
> On May 16, 2012 at 12:17 AM Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote: 
> 
> > > 
> > > The speaker machine immediately gives me
> "modules/module-tunnel.c: 
> > > stream died" regardless of whether or not the microphone machine
> has PA 
> > > running. 
> > 
> > That's odd. If PA is not running, I would expect it to be impossible
> to 
> > establish a TCP connection between the two machines, and "stream
> died" 
> > should be printed only after the TCP connection has been
> established. 
>  
> 
> I agree, but that's certainly what it's doing.   
> 
> > 
> > > The microphone machine seems to come up working properly,
> indicating No 
> > > Error on socket-server.  However, as soon as I start PA on the
> speaker 
> > > machine, the microphone machine gives me
> "pulsecore/protocol-native.c: 
> > > protocol error, kicking client" and exits. 
> > 
> > What version are you using? I think the tunnel module was broken
> (maybe 
> > only for sources, I don't remember) in 1.0 or 1.1. If you're using
> 2.0 
> > or the latest git version, then this is a new bug. 
>  
> 
> I'm using the latest Windows binaries from the download site.  Judging
> from the file name, I would say they're version 1.1.  Could that be
> the problem? Are there 2.0 binaries available? 

That could be the problem. Unfortunately, there aren't ready binaries
for 2.0. Is it an option for you to test from a Linux VM? Might make all
this simpler for you (I'm hoping the VMs will be able to deal with
networking transparently).

-- Arun