'Twas brillig, and Maarten Bosmans at 02/03/11 09:51 did gyre and gimble: > 2011/2/27 Stephen Lee <sl33nyc at gmail.com>: >> I git clone'd master yesterday, successfully compiled, and ran PA >> on my MacOS X machine. I was pleasantly surprised to see the >> Coreaudio modules! I successfully tunnelled audio from one of my >> Linux machines to my MacOS X w/o using esound, but I noticed that >> iTunes wasn't included as a client when I was playing it and then >> checking list-clients from the PA cli. > > That is of course expected, as iTunes and other mac apps are not > pulse clients. So you have several applications playing audio > connected to the CoreAudio subsystem and PulseAudio is one of them. > This is the same situation as on Linux, where pulse connects to ALSA > and applications that don't use libpulse but connect directly to > ALSA cannot be manipulated by pulse. There is however a way to make > PulseAudio your default ALSA device, so that even apps that only use > libasound are connected to pulse, all be it in a bit of a roundabout > way. IIRC Daniel Mack (who wrote most of the OSX support in recent years in PA) was intending on writing (perhaps "intending" is too strong a word tho'!) a virtual CoreAudio device that is "PulseAudio" that would work in the same way that the ALSA->Pulse stuff work on Linux. I'm not sure if he ever got around to that or not. IIRC he's still rather active on the alsa-devel mailing list. It may be worth asking him? Actually I've CC'ed him. Perhaps he can reply with more accurate comments. >> Generally, what's the plan for being able to manipulate native >> MacOS X clients/streams via PA? It'd be great to replace the >> AirTunes (AirPlay) functionality that Apple offers. If this >> functionality is still a work in progress, is there a workaround? > > The workaround would be to use an audio player that output to > PulseAudio, like vlc, rhythmbox, banshee, amarok, though I don't > have a clue whether these are ported to OSX and are able to use > libpulse there. While I don't know, I strongly suspect that VLC on mac is not compiled with PA support.... 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/]
