On Tue, 09.12.08 20:22, Brian J. Murrell (brian at interlinx.bc.ca) wrote: > Hi All, > > One thing that sprang to mind with pulseaudio's network protocol is a > coupling with VNC. Pulseaudio can bring the audio from a VNC server to > client enhancing the whole "remote desktop" experience. > > Certainly I could, once I have logged into a remote desktop simply > change the sound server to that of my local machine (i.e. VNC) client > through the applet, but wouldn't it be so much nicer if that happened > automagically? > > It would seem that most of the work for such an integration is in fact > in the VNC server, not pulseaudio, but two questions come to mind before > I go bugging the VNC guys: > > 1. Can pulseaudio be told to send sound to a remote server as well > as continuing to send sound to the local sound hardware? Practically not. Theoretically yes. > 2. What programmatic interfaces exist to make the above changes and > then undo them? pax11publish is a simple tool to store PA server data in the X11 root window (i.e. attach the PA data to the X display). Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
