Wow, this pulseaudio software is really impressive!! I'm playing with setting up an RTP stream. I cannot figure out what is happening, what am I'm doing wrong. I have one machine whose pulse "list" is shown below. When I attempt to play through pulseaudio to the rtp port, I get this error message: mplayer -ao alsa:device=pulse 03\ Bad\ Day.m4a MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Celeron A Mendocino/Pentium II Dixon (Family: 6, Model: 6, Stepping: 5) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. Playing 03 Bad Day.m4a. ISO: File Type Major Brand: Apple iTunes AAC-LC Audio Quicktime/MOV file format detected. [mov] Audio stream found, -aid 0 ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding) AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400) Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder) ========================================================================== E: socket-client.c: socket(): Address family not supported by protocol *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Connection refused Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. Audio: no sound Video: no video ~/.asoundrc: pcm.pulse { type pulse } ctl.pulse { type pulse } My kernel has support for multicast. asterisk# ping 224.0.0.1 PING 224.0.0.1 (224.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.50: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.484 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.50: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.417 ms list: 3 sink(s) available. index: 0 name: <alsa_output.hw_0> driver: <modules/module-alsa-sink.c> volume: <0: 74% 1: 74%> latency: <50068 usec> monitor_source: <0> sample spec: <s16le 2ch 44100Hz> channel map: <front-left,front-right> owner module: <0> description: <ALSA PCM on hw:0 (CS46xx)> index: 1 name: <rtp_recv> driver: <modules/module-null-sink.c> volume: <0: 100% 1: 100%> latency: <97125 usec> monitor_source: <2> sample spec: <s16le 2ch 44100Hz> channel map: <front-left,front-right> owner module: <6> description: <RTP Multicast Source> * index: 2 name: <rtp_send> driver: <modules/module-null-sink.c> volume: <0: 100%> latency: <9249 usec> monitor_source: <3> sample spec: <uLaw 1ch 16000Hz> channel map: <mono> owner module: <8> description: <RTP Multicast Sink> 4 source(s) available. index: 0 name: <alsa_output.hw_0.monitor> driver: <modules/module-alsa-sink.c> latency: <0 usec> sample spec: <s16le 2ch 44100Hz> channel map: <front-left,front-right> monitor_of: <0> owner module: <0> description: <Monitor Source of ALSA PCM on hw:0 (CS46xx)> index: 1 name: <alsa_input.hw_0> driver: <modules/module-alsa-source.c> latency: <8707 usec> sample spec: <s16le 2ch 44100Hz> channel map: <front-left,front-right> owner module: <1> description: <ALSA PCM on hw:0 (CS46xx)> * index: 2 name: <rtp_recv.monitor> driver: <modules/module-null-sink.c> latency: <0 usec> sample spec: <s16le 2ch 44100Hz> channel map: <front-left,front-right> monitor_of: <1> owner module: <6> description: <Monitor Source of RTP Multicast Source> index: 3 name: <rtp_send.monitor> driver: <modules/module-null-sink.c> latency: <0 usec> sample spec: <uLaw 1ch 16000Hz> channel map: <mono> monitor_of: <2> owner module: <8> description: <Monitor Source of RTP Multicast Sink> 0 sink input(s) available. 1 source outputs(s) available. index: 0 name: 'RTP Monitor Stream' driver: <modules/rtp/module-rtp-send.c> state: RUNNING source: <3> 'rtp_send.monitor' sample spec: <uLaw 1ch 16000Hz> channel map: <mono> resample method: src-sinc-fastest owner module: <9> 0 client(s) logged in. 12 module(s) loaded. index: 0 name: <module-alsa-sink> argument: <device=hw:0> used: 0 auto unload: no index: 1 name: <module-alsa-source> argument: <device=hw:0> used: 0 auto unload: no index: 3 name: <module-cli-protocol-tcp> argument: <> used: -1 auto unload: no index: 4 name: <module-native-protocol-tcp> argument: <auth-anonymous=1 auth-ip-acl=192.168.1.0/24> used: -1 auto unload: no index: 5 name: <module-http-protocol-tcp> argument: <> used: -1 auto unload: no index: 6 name: <module-null-sink> argument: <sink_name=rtp_recv description="RTP Multicast Source"> used: -1 auto unload: no index: 7 name: <module-rtp-recv> argument: <sink=rtp_recv> used: -1 auto unload: no index: 8 name: <module-null-sink> argument: <sink_name=rtp_send format=ulaw channels=1 rate=16000 description="RTP Multicast Sink"> used: -1 auto unload: no index: 9 name: <module-rtp-send> argument: <source=rtp_send.monitor> used: -1 auto unload: no index: 10 name: <module-volume-restore> argument: <> used: -1 auto unload: no index: 11 name: <module-rescue-streams> argument: <> used: -1 auto unload: no index: 12 name: <module-gconf> argument: <> used: -1 auto unload: no 0 cache entries available. Thanks, Jim