On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 13:04 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Grzegorz Kryza at 18/01/10 12:29 did gyre and gimble: > > Hello. > > > > I'm trying to figure out how to add a virtual source device. > > Virtual microphone available in all pulse enabled applications as a > > sound source. Voice data for this source should be provided by a third > > party application over a socket, pipe or any other inter process > > communication method. > > > > This can be done using 'module-pipe-source' but it was recently removed > > from Fedora packages so I'm looking for alternative. > > If you need this functionality, I suggest you just rebuild the fedora > package and include the pipe stuff. Yes, this will solve a problem on single computer. But how to distribute a application on multiple machines, different distros, different pulse versions... Not a easy task. > Personally I don't really see the point in excluding the pipe modules > from a package.. They may not be overly useful to most users but by the > same token they are 40k in size and it seems fairly harmless to include > them for the few users that can make use of them. I guess there could be > security concerns? Rather not, I found only this: http://www.mail-archive.com/pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de/msg04137.html Thanks for a answer. > > Col >