Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] rtp question

2008-02-20 Thread Tanu Kaskinen
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:10:39PM -0500, Paul Fox wrote: i'm curious about the rtp capability -- is there anything in the protocol to guarantee synchronization all the way to the sound hardware? As far as I know and understand how RTP works, no. The receiving machines would need to communicate

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] rtp question

2008-02-20 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:10:39PM -0500, Paul Fox wrote: i'm curious about the rtp capability -- is there anything in the protocol to guarantee synchronization all the way to the sound hardware? i understand that since the stream is multicast, all network receivers will get it at the same

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] rtp question

2008-02-20 Thread Paul Fox
thanks for the replies! cj van den berg wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:10:39PM -0500, Paul Fox wrote: any experience with this? I've tried it once between two rooms at opposite ends of my house. It started out with a slight reverb effect, which was pretty acceptable. But

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] rtp question

2008-02-20 Thread Tanu Kaskinen
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:00:22PM +0100, CJ van den Berg wrote: RTP doesn't provide any kind of synchronisation, so the different machines will definitely drift. This is a much bigger problem that the different latencies. At least the latencies are constant. And yes, it will be very annoying.

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] rtp question

2008-02-20 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:11:11AM -0500, Paul Fox wrote: Now I use module-tunnel + module-combine, which works just fine. It's good enough that you can't really tell whether the slight reverb effect you get in the hallway is network induced or just the acoustics of the house. I

[pulseaudio-discuss] libltdl error when building

2008-02-20 Thread Paul Fox
i'm trying to build version 0.9.9 on ubuntu gutsy. i've installed the libltdl3-dev package, which seems to be version 1.5.24. the make is complaining about ${topdir}/libltdl/libltdl.la being missing. i see that a version of libltdl was removed from svn in october. is this a side-effect of that

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] rtp question

2008-02-20 Thread Tanu Kaskinen
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:24:22AM -0800, Erich Boleyn wrote: A bigger question is, then: What is the whole point of RTP? If you are multicasting to multiple receivers without resampling, then there is a bufferring problem which will guarantee drop-outs or gaps. I'd guess the occasional

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Controlling where module-rtp-send sends multicast packets?

2008-02-20 Thread Matt Patterson
How do you join rooms together dynamically? That is one of my primary requirements. It sounds like you have gone almost the exact same route as me. Matt -Original Message- From: Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:53 PM To: General PulseAudio Discussion

[pulseaudio-discuss] Root ownership on /tmp/pulse-$USER (a warning to packagers)

2008-02-20 Thread Colin Guthrie
Hi, This is a little story that I've only just recently fully appreciated As with many distro's I've repackaged esound such that the actual binary is distributed separately and as such pulse can be installed with it's /usr/bin/esdcompat script symlinked to /usr/bin/esd. Anyway, while doing

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] No shutdown/startup sounds in gnome

2008-02-20 Thread JaM
First off thanks for the reply. I looked at the file that is being used and it is definitely 1 mb. The file is also getting cached in PulseAudio Manager and I can play it from there. I attempted to change the logout sound to a sound that works for one of my other events and still no dice. This

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] No shutdown/startup sounds in gnome

2008-02-20 Thread JaM
What version of gnome did you not experience this issue on? I am running gnome 2.20.3 and pulseaudio 0.9.9... On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Alex Malinovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 18, 2008, at 4:52 PM, JaM wrote: I have pulse audio installed on a gentoo linux system and have it