Ticket #143 (closed enhancement: fixed)
PulseAudio network marvel I want to see
| Reported by: | Rudd-O | Owned by: | lennart |
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| Milestone: | Component: | daemon | |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
Pulse is great. I've manually configured my user profile using paprefs to broadcast using RTP, and the machines that have sound cards in my house get it and play it because they've been setup as systemwide daemons with RTP sinks.
So far so good. Now here comes the tricky part. If I want to cast to a specific device on a specific machine, I have to manually type the machine name in padevchooser (which by the way doesn't automatically show up because PA zeroconf is terminally broken with emu10k1 cards -- there is another bug on that). and only then select the appropriate audio device. It's annoying that the OK button is focused instead of the dialog box text entry, but that's not SO bad. This is "badder":
1) I can't move already playing streams from machine to machine and, 2) whatever I choose in padevchooser doens't apply to a particular app but to all subsequently playing apps after the padevchooser server change -- until I go back and select a different server.
My wish (which I understand is mostly impossible due to architectural decisions) -- that I can:
- directly choose a sink among all of my servers (i.e. merge the servers and sinks submenus in padevchooser), and - move streams not just among devices, but among different machines as well
And of course that this would need as little configuration as possible -- zero :-)
There's also the problem of Skype (or padsp Skype) not working with Pulse, but well I guess we can leave that for another bug.
