On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 10:48 +0200, Maarten Bosmans wrote: > 2011/10/6 Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr>: > > On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 13:49 +0200, Maarten Bosmans wrote: > >> 2011/10/6 Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr>: > >> [...] I made a mistake, that wasn't paman I was talking about but another > >> > tool, with a little icon sitting in the systray to quickly select one of > >> > the available zeroconf servers. Really handy, but I can't seem to find > >> > it anymore in my debian install, does anyone remember its name ? > >> > >> I think we vowed never to mention that tool (pad*******er) again on > >> this list. ;-) > >> It has been deprecated for a long time now and how it handles things > >> isn't compatible with how we set up things nowadays. > > > > It's a shame. In my setup, I have an HTPC connected to a stereo. All > > individual PCs have their own sound hardware, but sometimes I want to > > use the stereo for sound output, and padev*****er is perfect for that > > purpose: 2 clicks and the sound moves to the HTPC. > > IIRC, that is two click and a restart of the audio-playing application, right? > > > Is there another (recommended) way of doing do now ? > > Enable tunnels. You can do this in paprefs, but that gives you all the > devices on the network. > For only a tunnel to the HTPC, set module-tunnel-sink up manually. > > Now you can switch from local playback to htpc on the go. I did it with paprefs, it's way easier to reproduce for my g/f :) Strange thing: the HTPC's daemon was unreachable locally, I had to configure it explicitly with load-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-anonymous=1 to have local apps output sound. And now streams can move even while playing. Neat ! Thanks, Xav
