Subject: Re: [vserver] Pulse Audio: receiving multicast on host
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:38:09 +0200

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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