On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:11:11AM -0500, Paul Fox wrote: > > 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. module-combine and module-tunnel-sink both run on the "source" machine. The destination machines just need to run module-native-protocol-tcp. > 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. :-) That sounds complicated. :) I personally use mpd which gives me one central music player with GUIs for controlling it on every machine in the house. (including my N800 and my wife's macbook) > 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. PulseAudio can seamlessly switch a stream from once sink to another, so this sort of thing is a piece of cake. > 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? module-remap is not what you want. You don't need any special module to switch streams on the fly. You can redirect/mute/unmute streams with pavucontrol, PulseAudio's volume control GUI. Or, if you prefer, you can script things with pactl and/or pacmd. All of these tools can be used remotely too. -- CJ van den Berg mailto:cj at vdbonline.com xmpp:cj at vdbonline.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20080220/43c71ed3/attachment.pgp>
