On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:24:34AM -0500, Paul Fox wrote: > cj van den berg wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:11:11AM -0500, Paul Fox wrote: > > > 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. > > maybe i don't understand what module-tunnel-sink does, then. how > is it different than a client simply playing to a remote machine? > i.e., is > paplay --network--> module-native-protocol-tcp > any different from: > paplay --> module-tunnel-sink --network--> module-native-protocol-tcp The difference is that you can't switch between sinks on two different remote hosts. Sink switching only works within a single pulseaudio daemon process. module-tunnel-sink makes a remote sink look like a local sink which means that if you have several of them, then you can switch between them and/or use module-combine on them. > > 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. > > thanks. i feel like i'm missing some documentation. where are the pa* > tools fully documented? man pages would be nice, of course, but i'm > old-fashioned that way. :-) All the command line tools should have man pages from 0.9.8 onwards iirc. The GUI tools have simple man pages in Debian, but not upstream. -- 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/20080220/514116f9/attachment.pgp>
