On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:24:46PM -0700, Martin Fick wrote: > > --- Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote: > > > 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? > > Yes, scenario #2, unless you mean something different? well, I meant scenario #3 of course, as you asked about that one :) best, Herbert > -Martin > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search > that gives answers, not web links. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC