Subject: Re: [vserver] Pulse Audio: receiving multicast on host
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:37:20 +0200

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
> 
> 
> 
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