Yeah, that would work. I wonder what the processing loads would be? I assume that the sync has to be maintained on all outputs for all streams, independent of muting state. It also may not scale should I want to add more zones, but that's a while off. No better way to know than to try it. I'll let you know what I find. Thanks for the suggestions, I really appreciate it! Matt Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 08:27:39AM -0800, Matt Patterson wrote: > >> I thought about this route, but the issue is I don't want interruptions >> in the rooms already listening to music. Maybe if feed all four input >> sources into split out sinks (splitting each input into 4 null-sink >> outputs in the end), I could then attach the final sound card outputs on >> demand without interruption to the other rooms listening... I'm not >> quite sure how the layout would work. >> >> You may be on to something here! Let me look at this and do some >> investigation. >> > > Fun little exercise! Maybe you already solved it yourself, > but if not, here's a spoiler: > > Create one tunnel sink per machine. Create one combined sink > per stream, each using all four tunnels. > > Now each combined sink has four streams, each going to one > tunnel. That means 16 streams (plus the 4 mpd streams). By > muting these 16 streams as needed you have full control over > what goes where, without any drop-outs. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20080215/2f59d946/attachment.htm>
