Hi Colin, Thanks, yeah 'pacmd list-sink-inputs' confirms that no resampling is happening. One other question: I presume that a sink volume setting for of 100% means no attentuation or amplification is happening, correct? Thanks, Josh On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Joshua Redstone at 16/07/11 21:35 did gyre and gimble: > > Yeah, I'm using TCP because the source audio is generated on a different > > machine from the one that has the USB sound card. > > OK, well I guess that explains that :D > > > I have a laptop with an internet music player on it, and I have a settop > > PC (pretty wimpy) that has a USB audio card connected to my stereo. > > I run the music player on my laptop because I want to control the audio > > from my laptop, and running the player on the settop and using vnc/nx is > > way to slow. > > Yup that all makes sense :) > > > So maybe the pulseaudio isn't doing any resampling work and is just > > churning to copy bytes around. Is there any optimizations I should have > > set up? In my /etc/pulse/default.pa <http://default.pa> I have: > > load-module module-native-protocol-tcp > > auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1;192.168.0.0/16 port=8675 > > Seems fine to me. > > > On the whole, I'm pretty happy with the setup. I'm trying to become an > > audio-snob :) and so wanted to make sure all my audio bits from the > > music player were getting to the sound card > > without unnecessary transformations. > > You can check with "pacmd list-sink-inputs" It should tell you the > resample method chosen for any given input. There was a bug that > prevented this from being cleared out so the info might be a bit bogus > at times for some streams, but I don't think that problem will show up. > > It should say: > > resample method: (null) > > Or similar if no resampling is being done. > > 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 lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > -- Josh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20110716/eede5c81/attachment.html>
