[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio for Network Streaming without Virtual Soundcard Hardware ?

[David Henningsson]

On 09/22/2013 06:40 AM, Patrick Rynhart wrote:
> On 22/09/2013 11:49 a.m., Patrick Rynhart wrote:
>> Is it possible to use Pulseaudio for Network Streaming without Virtual
>> Soundcard Hardware ?
>>
>> I've got Debian installed as a VM on ESXi 3 and I'm wanting to Stream
>> audio from this as a Server to an ESD sink.  The problem is that this
>> hypervisor doesn't support audio hardware.  In particular:
>>
>> # cat /proc/asound/cards
>> --- no soundcards ---
>>
>> Is it possible to emulate a soundcard (to use as a source) ?  If so, how
>> do I go about doing this ?
> 
> Okay - This seems to be what I'm looking for:
> 
> http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-aloop
> 
> Let me know if there's another way to do this or if I'm incorrect.

I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do, but the two basic
building blocks in PA for building "fake hardware" are
module-null-sink/source and module-loopback.


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