[pulseaudio-discuss] container support

[Jan Van den Audenaerde]

Thanks for the response.

How did you setup pulseaudio daemon/server ?

FYI I have also created following stackoverflow question to make my needs
mode clear :
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65274557/how-to-configure-pulseaudio-on-the-host-for-docker-containers

kr
Jan

Op za 12 dec. 2020 om 16:58 schreef guest271314 <guest271314 at gmail.com>:

> > *Moreover it should be possible that different docker containers can
> access the microphone and speaker at the same time.*
>
> *> *Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> I have not used pulseaudio server/client functionality. I have used pulse
> audio to get system audio and specific application audio output in Firefox
> and streamed that data to Chrome and Chromium, which does not support
> capturing system audio.
>
> One option would be to serve the audio data using parec or parecord from
>
> > *CentOs 8 on a headless device (intel-nuc)*
>
> where
>
> > *my docker containers should be able to use pulseaudio client to
> communicate with the pulseaudio server*
>
> request and receive PCM or PCM re-encoded to a different codec.
>
> This can be achieved using a server-client template, e.g., fetch('/
> http://localhost:1234?device=microphone'), parse the PCM response at the
> client containers
> https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api-v2/issues/97#issue-688754941.
> Other means of achieving the requirement include using WebRTC
> PeerConnection
> https://gist.github.com/guest271314/04a539c00926e15905b86d05138c113c.
>
> PulseAudio has a WebRTC Audio Processing component though I have not tried
> that either. See also https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc;
> https://git.aweirdimagination.net/perelman/minimal-webrtc-gstreamer.
>
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 7:19 AM Jan Van den Audenaerde <
> jan.vandenaudenaerde at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have spend several days without success figuring out how I can use
>> pulseaudio in a container setup on an embedded device.
>>
>>
>>
>> *I am running CentOs 8 on a headless device (intel-nuc) which is also
>> running docker. I would like to run pulseaudio server on the host (CentOs
>> 8) and my docker containers should be able to use pulseaudio client to
>> communicate with the pulseaudio server via pulseaudio unix socket. Moreover
>> it should be possible that different docker containers can access the
>> microphone and speaker at the same time.*
>>
>>
>> The main problem I am facing I have reported in following forum post:
>>
>>
>>    - https://forums.centos.org/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=76643
>>
>>
>> Any help would be much appreciated.
>> I also think that pulseaudio has the good requirements for use in a
>> container setup if  I only can make it work.
>> Jan.
>>
>>
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