thanks for the replies! cj van den berg wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:10:39PM -0500, Paul Fox wrote: > > > any experience with this? > > I've tried it once between two rooms at opposite ends of my house. It > started out with a slight reverb effect, which was pretty acceptable. > But after about 3-5 minutes it was far enough out of sync that turned > into an annoying echo effect. yes -- i see now. if the audio h/w is running at different rates, you'll get more and more buffer backup on one of them, increasing slowly over time. that's where sample-dropping, or something like it, would need to come into play. > > Now I use module-tunnel + module-combine, which works just fine. It's > good enough that you can't really tell whether the slight reverb effect > you get in the hallway is network induced or just the acoustics of the > house. I haven't yet tried running an audio cable across the house to > find out. :-) ah -- that's good news. having just read the descriptions of those modules, i'm a little surprised it works, but i'll take your word for it. :-) to clarify: module-combine is run on the "source" machine, and the tunnels run to the machines with the audio h/w, correct? it's going to take me a while to get my head around the terminology and how these things interconnect. a somewhat related question: part of my current system involves being able to redirect a music stream from one room to another. i use a customized irmp3 program to control a customized mpg123 program. the mpg123 is sending its output to a remote NAS server, and can be told via irmp3 to close that connection and open a new one to a different NAS server. this is useful when i move from the living room to the kitchen to make dinner. :-) i'm thinking that if i had the synchronized distribution system going that we've been talking about, that i could enable one or the other (or both) "sinks" at any time -- they'd both be available, i'd just unmute (or otherwise enable) the one(s) i wanted to hear. since that will be a bigger change to my home control infrastructure (which is a set of networked scripts held together with virtual chewing gum and string), is there a way in pulse to do "switching" as i'm doing it now? i just noticed the "remap" module -- could i use it, again, perhaps with tunnels, to select one destination or the other? paul =--------------------- paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 20.7 degrees)
