matthew wrote: > I just thought I would check back on this. Last night I reworked my i only just joined the list yesterday, but i've read a bit about your project in the archives. it's similar enough to what i want to do that i'm paying close attention to your progress. so thanks for the update. :-) > control app and pulse configuration. Now I can use either rtp or the > combine module to perform the audio matrix switching. There is > definitely more load on the system, even when using the combine module > with the default resampling. The syncing is definitely better than the > rtp method, but only marginally. When I change to a better syncing alg I > can't really test anything because my system screeches to a halt with so > much cpu load! I am working on a slower laptop for dev so that is not > surprising. > > The important part is my router doesn't puke on all the multicast data, > so I think I will stick with this for the moment. > > In case anyone was curious, here's a snippet for my default config. I > remap my 8 channel audio card to 4 stereo cards, naming each one a i'm confused as to what the audio card on your server is doing? i wouldn't have thought you'd need or want a local audio card at all (unless you need local playback). why aren't the sources for your 4 zones, which feed your remote sinks, all strictly virtual? paul =--------------------- paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 27.1 degrees)