> 'Twas brillig, and Oliver Konz at 15/09/10 13:54 did gyre and gimble: > > Hi all! > > > > I'm new to this discussion group - so, sorry if this has been already > > discussed... (However I couldn't find anything in the archives.) > > > > I want to playpack audio with mpd in multiple rooms. To achieve this I > > have defined two outputs in mpd: A local PulseAudio sink and another > > remote PulseAudio sink. I can turn the outputs on and off - works like a > > charm! > > The problem is that I have a slight delay between the local and the > > network audio, which results in an echo effect. > > > > I do not expect network audio to work without delay, but is there a way > > to add a delay to the local sink to compensate this? > > Could you perhaps do your output slightly differently? > > e.g. perhaps you could do the following: > > 1. Setup 1 output in mpd: the local PA server. > 2. Setup a tunnel in local PA to the remote one, thus two sinks. > 3. Add a combined sink locally, that connects local sink + tunnel sink. > > This way you can just output the mpd to the local PA server and then > just use PA tools (pavucontrol) to move the stream from local, to remote > to combined. > > This way PA will be in charge for the whole loop and may make a better > job at synchronisation. > > Col Thank you for your help! That did the trick! :-) Oliver
