duncanthrax
MAC OS X receiver
hi, I don't know where to put this, but I was able to brew install pulseaudio and use pulseaudio receiver on mac os x... hope that helps someone
Can I add this here? A feature request for a macOS transmitter/sender. It will only easily support network mode. It can be a user mode driver, similar to the BackgroundMusic driver, so it won't need kernel signing.
Sorry to bother everyone :(
could anyone explain to me how that works? I managed to brew install pulse audio, but I can't get the dev things for obv. reasons,
when trying to run scream-pulse after make I just get
> devy@devys-iMac pulseaudio % ./scream-pulse -p 4011 -i en0
> W: [] caps.c: Normally all extra capabilities would be dropped now, but that's impossible because PulseAudio was built without capabilities support.
> Unable to connect to PulseAudio. Connection refused
It seems that pulseaudio is not running, open another terminal and run pulseaudio then run again scream-pulse. I've just tested on MacOS Catalina and it does connect to pulseaudio (I didn't stream anything, I don't have a windows pc here).
You can also run pulseaudio as a daemon with pulseaudio -D.
I have this working great, however my the latency of pulseaudio on the receiving end (osx / macos) is fixed at 250ms. Pulseaudio is very new to me and i'm currently pulling my hair out trying to lower the PA fixed-latency of all my audio devices.
I know this probably isn't the correct or most appropriate forum to ask, but does anyone have any idea of how to lower the fixed latency?
@kourindouhime how is the latency for you?
Below is the output from pacmd list-sinks
index: 1
name: <Out_1__Out_2__Out_3__Out_4>
driver: <module-coreaudio-device.c>
flags: HARDWARE DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY FLAT_VOLUME
state: RUNNING
suspend cause: (none)
priority: 9000
volume: mono: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB, mono: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB, mono: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB, mono: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
balance 0.00
base volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
volume steps: 65537
muted: no
current latency: 12.17 ms
max request: 0 KiB
max rewind: 0 KiB
monitor source: 1
sample spec: float32le 4ch 48000Hz
channel map: mono,mono,mono,mono
Mono
used by: 1
linked by: 1
fixed latency: 250.00 ms
card: 1 <UMC404HD_192k>
module: 8
properties:
device.string = "UMC404HD 192k"
device.product.name = "UMC404HD 192k"
device.description = "UMC404HD 192k"
device.access_mode = "mmap"
device.class = "sound"
device.api = "CoreAudio"
device.buffering.buffer_size = "8192"
device.vendor.name = "BEHRINGER"
device.icon_name = "audio-card"
By implementing support fore coreaudio, the latency should be very low.
By implementing support fore coreaudio, the latency should be very low.
Someone can make a guide to how to connect macOS receiver with Windows server?
I was able to use the raw output function in conjunction with ffplay to get audio output with decent latency.
./scream -o raw | ffplay -f s16le -ar 44100 -ch_layout stereo -fflags nobuffer -
The ffplay solution eventually stops working if there are too many gaps in the network packets, likely due to how CoreAudio works.
I've create a proof-of-concept for a CoreAudio receiver here - https://github.com/pawitp/scream/pull/1
Currently, I'm not planning to productionize it, but if anyone would like to create a CoreAudio receiver, please feel free to use it as a start.