21.06.2015 14:19, Rick Mud wrote:
Hi,
I have some newbie question about Pulseaudio. Firstly, let me explain
what I've got working for now. I am now able to stream music from one
Raspberry Pi to another Raspberry Pi. The receiving end is fitted with
high quality DAC, and connected to an amplifier.
My first question:
1) is the receiving end, in Pulseaudio terms, a client, or a server?
When audio playback is discussed, the receiving end is a server.
I want a multi-room solution, streaming the same music from one sender
to multiple Pi's, all connected to an amplifier. My second question:
2) Is it possible to distribute music from one sender to multiple
receivers at the same time?
In theory, yes.
On the sender, install PulseAudio and load several instances of
module-tunnel-sink (or module-tunnel-sink-new), and one
module-combine-sink. Please use "pacmd describe-module" and "pactl list
short sinks" to figure out the correct module arguments.
The caveat is that I recently got a private email from ValdikSS that
tunnels don't really work with mpv (playback stops after a few minutes),
even with pcaps attached. I have not debugged this.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
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