Hye, I am currently actively using pulseaudio for streaming audio over network. I found RTP the most promesing method for me. However there is a problem I ran into which I'd like to solve. I've also prepared a possible solution. My goal is to stream music via RTP and paprefs. Quick setup on the sender side and quick setup on the receiver side if also pulse+paprefs is used. Now my receiver is a raspberry pi which uses kodi + alsa as pulse is too slow on it for some reason (general lag, even for local playback). But kodi also can playback an RTP stream directly: Create a file named pulse.strm with the content: rtp://@224.0.0.56:46400 Now the problem is that the port always changes, as paprefs does not set any specific port. The module it uses is module-rtp-send: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Modules/#index38h3 I am wondering if you can set the default port for this module globally via config file. If not the only way to fix this issue is to provide a way for paprefs to use a fixed port. Due to the fact that the source port is always random and the pulse sink listens to all ports it would not matter much if the sender would always send with a fixed port. Using a fixed port is simple to patch and works for me: Just change line 537 of paprefs.cc to the following: changeSet.set(PA_GCONF_PATH_MODULES"/rtp-send/args1", Glib::ustring(loopbackEnabled ? "source=rtp.monitor loop=1 port=46400" : "source=rtp.monitor loop=0 port=46400")); Now paprefs creates a sender with the same port. You may want to use a different port, but basically that'd solve the problem. And existing setups would still work. Is there a way to get this fix applied? Or are there any other suggestions? FYI: the same also applies to vlc playback, not only kodi. Cheers, Nico
