2011/2/27 Sean McNamara <smcnam at gmail.com>: > Hi, > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Maarten Bosmans <mkbosmans at gmail.com> wrote: >> As the patches that make it possible to build pulse on win32 should >> land in master any moment now, I thought it would be a good time to >> make the binaries available for download. > > This is amazing work! I'm able to play audio from Ubuntu to Win32 over > a gigabit ethernet crossover cable (to spare the latency of the > router), using Ubuntu 11.04 on the Linux side. No dropouts. I remember > doing this a long time ago, but it wasn't nearly as reliable or > robust. I've tested several simultaneous streams, with no detectable > problems, with Synergy desktop sharing going over the same connection. That's good to hear. > I set it up for module-native-tcp, with auth_anonymous, because anyone > connecting from an unauthorized source (i.e. outside of my network) > would hit my router's NAT and be ignored, so... > > My suggestion for generating default configs would be to load > module-waveout and module-native-protocol-tcp. You may as well not > include "auth_anonymous=1" by default, but leave a line with an > explanation to enable it if you're behind a firewall and want to play > audio between computers on the LAN. Well, enabling auth-anonymous by default is a bit too much I think. Even if we from the Linux view think Windows is less secure, we can at least take our security-mindedness with us when porting software to other platforms. I'm OK with a commented out line, together with a little explanation, but throwing your audio on the network by default for anyone to hear is not good IMHO. Installing pulse on Windows is not completely straightforward anyway, so I think we may expect some tweaking of the config from the user. > The only strange thing I hit is that starting PA caused Windows to > change my default Windows Audio playback device. I have quite a few > because I've got a USB webcam with a mic, a Virtual Audio Cable, a > Radeon card's HDMI, and onboard HD Audio. It selected the Virtual > Audio Cable as default for unknown reasons when I started PA for the > first time. (This is on Windows 7 x64). Do you mean that other software than pulse suddenly also had a different default device? I presume you don't have a device parameter set for module-waveout. In the case pulse uses the WAVE_MAPPER constant, which is the Windows default device. If you have any ideas on how to do it better, comments (or even better: patches) are welcome. > Thank you so much! :)) > > -Sean Maarten
