On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Aditya Rajgarhia at 29/05/11 20:24 did gyre and gimble: > > Hi, > > > > I borrowed an Airport Extreme device (it's a fairly new version) from a > > friend with the intent of testing if it works with pulseaudio. > > > > The AEX is connected to the network and I can see it using > > avahi-discover, and also on the "Output Devices" section of "Volume > > Control" in padevchooser. However, it does not show up in the "Default > > Sink" section so there is no way for me to select it as the sink. What > > am I missing here? > > Can you clarify what the "default sink" section is? PulseAudio GUIs are > generally the domain of the desktop environment which uses it, so this > could be a GNOME or KDE specific tool. > > > Note that I can use raop_play to play files to the AEX so it doesn't > > appear to be a connectivity problem on the AEX side. > > > > I am using pulseaudio 0.9.22 with the raop and zeroconf modules listed > > in system.pa. The output of list-sinks in pulseaudio -C does contain an > > entry for the AEX: > > > > index: 4 > > name: <raop.Base-Station-6bded3.local> > > driver: <module-raop-sink.c> > > flags: NETWORK HW_VOLUME_CTRL LATENCY > > state: SUSPENDED > > suspend cause: IDLE > > ... > > module: 30 > > properties: > > device.string = "169.254.208.42" > > device.intended_roles = "music" > > device.description = "ar_airplay" > > device.icon_name = "audio-card" > > > > I tried to manually set the Default Sink to > > raop.Base-Station-6bded3.local but that didn't work. > > How did you manually set it? And what do you mean by it didn't work? If > you set the default, does it not show as the default or do you just mean > that programs are not using it as their default and are still using the > built in hardware? Keep in mind that the "default" in PA terms is not > really used unless all other routing options are exhausted. Changing the > default will not move active streams (well the GNOME GUI does this, but > it's a not something PA does itself). > > If you could give more details I can advice more. > > Keep in mind that the Airport support is still rather rubbish in lots of > ways (I say this as the author!) and does still need work. Timing and > buffering in particular. > > Cheers > > 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20110529/37bbcc71/attachment.htm>
