howto play audio here and hear it there

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Wednesday 02 September 2009 13:59:00 Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 22:24 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > You need to have avahi zeroconf service running, set up appropriate
> > environment variables, and such.
>
> Hmm, and for the rest of us that have proper networks, and don't want to
> run zeroconf, we can't do networked pulse audio?

Forgive my ignorance, but why is running avahi a problem? It was on by default 
in all Fedora installations that I can remember ever installing. Also, it 
seems that a lot of things happen to make use of it:

   http://avahi.org/wiki/Avah4users#SoftwareMakinguseofAvahi

I admit I have never used it so far, but I don't see why having avahi running 
makes a network "improper".

To answer your question, I don't know if pulseaudio can be made to work over a 
network without avahi. But given that Lennart Poettering is the lead developer 
for both pulseaudio and avahi, I wouldn't be surprised if the answer is "no".

Best, :-)
Marko