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 > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. > http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/