21.06.2015 14:19, Rick Mud wrote: > Hi, > > I have some newbie question about Pulseaudio. Firstly, let me explain > what I've got working for now. I am now able to stream music from one > Raspberry Pi to another Raspberry Pi. The receiving end is fitted with > high quality DAC, and connected to an amplifier. > > My first question: > 1) is the receiving end, in Pulseaudio terms, a client, or a server? When audio playback is discussed, the receiving end is a server. > > I want a multi-room solution, streaming the same music from one sender > to multiple Pi's, all connected to an amplifier. My second question: > > 2) Is it possible to distribute music from one sender to multiple > receivers at the same time? In theory, yes. On the sender, install PulseAudio and load several instances of module-tunnel-sink (or module-tunnel-sink-new), and one module-combine-sink. Please use "pacmd describe-module" and "pactl list short sinks" to figure out the correct module arguments. The caveat is that I recently got a private email from ValdikSS that tunnels don't really work with mpv (playback stops after a few minutes), even with pcaps attached. I have not debugged this. -- Alexander E. Patrakov
