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berland
2009-04-05, 00:07
Hello

I've had my griefs with pulseaudio and seen people reporting problems with it here in the forum.

BUT, wait, this will be awesome! I just got my living-room xbmc computer distribute sound though the attached living-room-speakers, but also to my office computer's speakers in another room in my house, *synchronized*.

I can't give a detailed fail-proof recipe for how to achieve this, but I followed the instructions at

http://x4.6times7.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/devlog/blog/streaming_on_ubuntu_8.04_with_pulseaudio#how_to_av oid_time_delay_between_server_and_client

and fiddled some time with the pulseaudio gui.

Pulseaudio requires a decent GUI which hides more details and makes this more smooth for the end-user. I hope this will become much better with Ubuntu 9.04 and XBMC 9.04, so I have left this here.

Pulseaudio IS the way to go.

topfs2
2009-04-05, 10:41
We have supported PulseAudio natively since a few weeks after the release of 8.10.

So in 9.04 you will have PulseAudio support!

Anyways, please do try the betas and say how it works on your multi-room solution.

Cheers,
Tobias.