'Twas brillig, and Oliver Konz at 15/09/10 21:20 did gyre and gimble: >> '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! :-) Great :) Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
