Re: [vserver] Pulse Audio: receiving multicast on host

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Fri 24 Aug 2007 - 14:38:09 BST
Message-ID: <20070824133809.GB30976@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 12:14:26PM -0700, Martin Fick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have recently been experimenting with the pulseaudio
> sound server and ran into a multicasting problem. My
> setup:
>
> 1) Pulseaudio server running in a vserver (desk),
> which is sending a multicast rtp stream out for other
> pulseaudio servers to listen to.
>
> 2) Pulseaudio server running on a machine (dell),
> setup to listen to rtp multicast stream from vserver
> desk and playback to local soundcard, works fine.
>
> 3) Pulseaudio server running on a host (mwave) of
> vserver desk, setup to listen to rtp multicast stream
> from vserver desk and playback to local soundcard, did
> not initially work.
>
> In order to get #3 to work I had to enable the
> pulseaudio loop option for the module-rtp-send. This
> option is documented like this:
>
> loop Takes a boolean value, specifying whether
> locally generated RTP traffic should be
> looped back to the local host. Disabled by
> default.
>
>
> Should #3 have worked without the loop option?

no idea, does it work on a normal Linux server without
that option?

best,
Herbert

> -Martin
>
>
> I am running:
>
> debian kernel 2.6.17-1-vserver-686 (host:mwave)
> vserver-utils 0.30.210-1 (host:mwave)
>
> pulseaudio #1(desk) 9.6.1
> #2(dell) 9.5.5
> #3(mwave) 9.5.7
>
>
>
>
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Received on Fri Aug 24 14:40:29 2007

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