On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie>wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Rich? at 30/01/11 10:02 did gyre and gimble: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to get the perfect pulseaudio network audio server setup. > > > > So far, I have pulseaudio daemon running on my sound server. > > I am able to access it from my clients using padevchooser. > > > > I have two questions: > > > > 1/ padevchooser is tagged as obsolete in the pulseaudio documentation. > > What sould I use instead ? > > Generally we'd recommend pavucontrol as a mixer app. padevchooser just > sets properties on the X11 root window and doesn't actually do anything > "live" with the pulseaudio server. The best approach generally is to use > "tunnels" from your local PA server to the network server. This way you > can move your streams from local devices to remote ones without having > to stop and restart them. > > > 2/ The last thing I miss is the use of my multimedia keyboard to be able > > to control the server's volume. > > This is not a pulseaudio issue, rather a GNOME one (yes, I am using > > GNOME) But I figured that someone from pulseaudio could better > > understand this problem: > > So, If I use the volume control applet, it is totaly transparent for me > > (when it comes to adjusting the volume levels) weather I use my local > > server or the networked one. > > However, the actions of my volume up/down keys only affects my local > > sound server...too bad ! > > IIRC the volume keys affect the "default" sink. Therefore to change the > remote audio, just change the default sink to be the one that is the > tunnel to the remote server :) > > Ok, I've set up a tunnel. It is working as expected, the volume keys now affects the selected sink !! Thank you. However, I noticed a degradation in sound quality: - the sound is sometimes missing - when i change track in vlc, the beginning of the sound is chopping do you have any idea what could be causing this ? thanks again Thomas > Col > > > -- > > Colin Guthrie > gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie > http://colin.guthr.ie/ > > Day Job: > Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] > Open Source: > Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] > PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] > Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20110130/e3e2d229/attachment.htm>
