Colin Guthrie wrote: > First of all padevchooser is dead! It's use is generally not promoted. I don't think this is clear from the documentation. In fact, it says that it works "perfectly". It should say "deprecated" > On each of the machines that you actually run stuff on (e.g. your > desktop) you want to run the mozule-zeroconf-discover module (you can > enable this via papref's "Make discovered network sinks available > locally" (or something like that!). > > This will add a new sink to your local pulseaudio that will be treated > just like another local sound card. > > When you play sound on your local machine, simply fire up pavucontrol > and then find the stream you want to move to the kitchen, and either > right click or use the little drop down menu thing to select the kitchen > sink (pun fully intended ;)) I will look into this. Thanks! > Sadly there is no handy gui way to output to both sinks at the same > time... you can do it but you'll need to load a module-combine with the > correct sink names to create another local virtual sink that copies > audio to both devices. This will send the same data to both sinks which > you could argue is not efficient. An alternative to that is to use the > RTP modules to multicast the data instead. (44100 * 16 * 2) / 8 = 176 kBps pr. server. My local network can handle this :-) But prey tell: I'm very interested in the RTP solution. Will this make vlc running on Windows able to output to the networked sinks as well? sv.
