cj van den berg wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:24:34AM -0500, Paul Fox wrote: > > 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. i understand now. thanks. > > 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. okay. i'm running ubuntu gutsy, and hence 0.9.6. i'll fetch source to get the docs. (and the changelog :-) paul =--------------------- paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 25.5 degrees)
