[pulseaudio-discuss] xrdp pulse sink

Tanu Kaskinen tanu.kaskinen at linux.intel.com
Sun Jul 14 04:40:28 PDT 2013


On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 15:28 -0700, Jay Sorg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm an xrdp developer.  xrdp is an open source RDP server for Linux.
> I've recently implemented RDP audio redirection using PulseAudio.
> For this I created a PulseAudio sink that communicates with xrdp.
> It seems like this is the best way redirect the audio.
> 
> One problem is that I need to build a sink.  I created some directions
> that involve downloading the pulse audio source to build a sink for
> your server.
> The directions are kinda klunky and don't always work.
> 
> http://www.xrdp.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19:xrdp-pulse-sink&catid=2:documents&Itemid=7
> 
> Two questions I have.
> 
> 1 - is there an easier way to build custom sinks without replacing the
> PulseAudio system.

I don't think so. We don't support out-of-tree modules.

> 2 - can I get an xrdp sink into the PulseAudio source upstream?

Yes, if we think that an xrdp sink makes enough sense to justify the
maintenance cost. Why do you want to have an xrdp sink instead of using
a tunnel sink that we already support in PulseAudio?

-- 
Tanu



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