Subject: Re: [vserver] Pulse Audio: receiving multicast on host
From: Martin Fick <mogulguy@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:24:46 -0700 (PDT)


--- 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?

-Martin



       
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