Mark Greenwood wrote:
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 03:45:04 Jud Craft wrote:
> Is this possible? I haven't used Fedora in a month or two (which I
> regard as close to upstream as I dare to venture), but I recall that
> it was only possible to move a stream between sinks, as opposed to
> selecting different sinks for playback.
>
> I'm not sure of a good use case for that one -- perhaps the ability to
> listen to audio locally, and stream it over network to a nearby
> location at the same time. Or, for multiple sets of outputs (I think
> I seem to recall a discussion post Pulseaudio developers where it said
> that Pulse could help link two or three different stereo outputs into
> a virtual surround output, or something like that. Possibly my
> understanding is in over it's league).
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You can use RTP multicast to stream from one to many. Multicast
reception can be enabled/disabled on each sink depending on who wants
to listen to whatever you're broadcasting. Not quite what you're
asking for but it does work. You can either multicast whatever you're
listening to locally, or create a separate sink for multicasting.
Mark
I have a related question to using Multicast/RTP receiver with a
Combined sink.
I have a central home server that has a Combined sink driving a USB
sound device and an internal sound card. These operate a surround sound
theater area and a wireless house audio system respectively.
When run a source player locally on this server, it by default sends to
the combined sink.
When I configure this server's pulseaudio server as a Multicast/RTP
receiver, and drive is from a PC in my home office, the sound only plays
on the USB sink, not the combined sink. I cannot find any configuration
knobs/buttons to affect the result. I can set the office PC to use the
server's pulseaudio server, but that seems like a work-around.
Any ideas?
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