Dynamic tunnels with zeroconf

[prodrigestivill]

A module or script that add and removes tunnels dynamically for each pulseaudio server found with zeroconf.

https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2007-May/000369.html

[lennart]

Hmm, I thought about that before. Usually it is better however, if clients directly connect to another PA instance on the net, instead of going over the local server and through the tunnel.

I will keep this open, but it is not a top priority on my list.

[funkyhat]

Alternatively could there be a way to select sinks from different PA servers using pavucontrol?

[lennart]

Humm, moving streams between multiple servers without interruption is currently not supported, and would be major task to implement properly.

[helge]

...but it would be awesome to have :)

The no.1 reason why I chose PulseAudio over Jack/others is network transparency. Without being able to move a stream to another server on-the-fly is just... well... makes the circle incomplete. Part of the main purpose is missing - the ability to dynamically migrate streams without interrupting your movie/audio player.

I think this should have normal priority.

[tracy]

I'd also vote for this, or maybe just improved error handling when a tunnel goes down.

The only reason I've been using pulseaudio is to be able to seemlessly switch between local audio and remote network audio without having to restart applications. This seems to work pretty well w/ a local sink and a tunnel sink...

But, if the link goes down for any reason, I have to restart the local pulseaudio server, as well as ny audio apps...

[lennart]

A new module-zeroconf-discover has been added to r1983.