[pulseaudio-discuss] Use two servers at the same time

[Alex ARNAUD]

Thank you very much Tanu and Vimal :) ! It works like a charm.

Best regards.
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Alex ARNAUD
Visual-Impairment Project Manager
Hypra - "Humanizing technology"

Le 25/10/2017 à 16:45, Tanu Kaskinen a écrit :
> On Tue, 2017-10-24 at 15:56 +0200, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm a low-vision person. I need to process to remote desktop support and
>> remote training with users.
>> At this time I redirect the sound from the user computer to my computer
>> via pax11publish but the remote computer has no longer sound.
>>
>> Is there a way to have the sound on both computer at the same time ?
> 
> Instead of using pax11publish, you can do this on the remote computer:
> 
>      pactl load-module module-tunnel-sink server=YOUR_ADDRESS sink_name=tunnel_to_alex
>      pactl load-module module-combine-sink sink_name=combined_sink slaves=tunnel_to_alex,LOCAL_SINK_NAME
> 
> Replace "YOUR_ADDRESS" with the address of your computer and
> LOCAL_SINK_NAME with the local sound card sink name of the remote
> computer.
> 
> This will create two new sinks on the remote machine. The first one is
> named "tunnel_to_alex", and anything played to that sink will be
> forwarded to your computer. The second one is named "combined_sink",
> and anything played to it will be forwarded to "tunnel_to_alex" and the
> local sound card sink.
> 
> If you're not sure how to find out what LOCAL_SINK_NAME should be,
> "pactl list sinks | grep Name:" will list the names of all available
> sinks. The local sound card sink name is probably something like
> alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.
>