Hello,

I'm writing a sink module to communicate with a home-made audio server. I follow your advice to use the RAOP module code as a support. So I keep the structure, I can compile it but I'm not able to load the new module anymore. I put it in /usr/lib/pulse-0.9.22/modules but when I run

pactl load-module module-spam-sink

it doesn't work (Failure in module initialisation) and the log says me:

pulseaudio[2340]: module.c: Failed to open module "module-spam-sink": file not found

Could you, please, explain me how I can easily load the module ?

Dam.

Le 29/05/2011 11:19, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
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'Twas brillig, and Damien DEJEAN at 25/05/11 19:25 did gyre and gimble:
Hello,

I'm working on a little sound server for small computers. I already have
a server and a client library to send sound to this server. Now I wish
write a pulseaudio module to redirect sound to the library and then send
it to the little server.

I read the tutorial about modules, but I was noat able to found some
informations. For example, I need to get the bit width (8, 16 bits ...),
the sample rate (22k, 44khz) and the sound data, but I don't where I can
found it.

There are very naive questions, but I don't really know where to begin
:$, can you help me ?
Well, overall you'll be writing a "Sink" module. This is an output
device module and it will likely connect direct to your server.

The sink itself will advertise a fixed sample format and then PA will
internally handle any input stream remixing when the stream is connected
to that sink. It is then the sinks responsibility to process the actual
data. While it's certainly not perfect, this is how e.g. the ROAP sink
works, so it may be a good idea to look at the structure of that code
and just replace the RAOP/RTP things with calls to your library.


Can I ask what the small sound server is? For small computers
(especially those run off battery or where power saving is desirable)
PulseAudio is one of the only systems to do advanced driving of the alsa
devices using it's timer based scheduling... this approach can save up
to half a watt in power based on current tests. Why is PulseAudio itself
not appropriate for these small computers? (it's already used in several
embedded systems for the reasons of power saving listed above).

Col


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