[pulseaudio-discuss] container support

[Jan Van den Audenaerde]

Hi,

Thanks for the response.

But how do I get the pulseaudio daemon running in userspace that is
listening to unix socket /run/user/1000/pulse/native ?
I don't want to start this daemon manually but as a systemd service.

kr
jan


Op zo 13 dec. 2020 om 14:40 schreef GMAIL <temptempor at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> This can be achieved fairly "simply" (as long as you know what to look
> for).
>
> You need to pass the pulse socket into the container and tell pulse
> clients inside the container its precise path.
>
> So on Docker CLI, for a typical Pulse daemon running in userspace, it
> would be something like:
> *-v /run/user/1000/pulse:/run/user/1000/pulse *
>
> Inside the container, once you've installed Pulseaudio, you need to modify
> its client configuration:
>
> */etc/pulse/client.conf*
>
> *default-server = /run/user/1000/pulse/native*
>
> With this your Pulseaudio applications should be able to play sounds
> through the host PulseAudio server (of course, you'd need to adapt the
> runtime paths to your environment).
>
> Bear in mind, there seems to be some inconsistencies in the way various
> Pulse utilities interface with the daemon. In this setup for example,
> "pacmd" won't work, whilst "pactl" works fine once the client
> configuration is fixed.
>
> You could test this in a manual way first and then automate things a bit
> with a Dockerfile and what not.
>
> Best regards.
> On 12/12/2020 16:19, Jan Van den Audenaerde 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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