Checkmark Enable Multicast/RTP Sender.This allows receiving multicast streams from other systems on your LAN. Checkmark Enable Multicast/RTP Receiver.
This will allow other computers on your LAN with PulseAudio to access this computer's sound devices. Now, go into Applications -> Sound and Video -> click on PulseAudio Preferences.Ĭheckmark all three options under Network Access. Note: The "pulse" group is for pulseaudio internal use, and normal users should not be added to this group. For example, there's "ted" and "root" and "kamilion" listed, and you only want "kamilion" to have access to sound, that's the one to check, leave the other two blank. Just put a check next to each user that you want to be able to have access to sound. Make sure to highlight each, one at a time, and click Properties. Next we go to System -> Administration -> and click on Users and Groups.Ĭlick on Manage Groups, and scroll all the way to the bottom of the list where you will find: The top two will create new output and input definitions for PulseAudio, and the bottom two will set PulseAudio as the default audio device for programs using the ALSA interface. Normally on Ubuntu 7.10, this file will not exist, so we're creating it. This will open /etc/nf in a Text Editor as the root user. Now, type the following: gksudo gedit /etc/nf
This will install the ALSA Pulse plugin, the PulseAudio daemons and the PulseAudio tools. Type the following: sudo apt-get install libasound2-plugins "pulseaudio-*" paman padevchooser paprefs pavucontrol pavumeter
Here's how to install it, as of Dec-08-2007, on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10, with PulseAudio 0.9.6 Ubuntu 8.04 and higher installs PulseAudio by default and no extra configuration is needed. This section only applies to old, unsupported versions of Ubuntu. The problems seems to be related to the pulse plugin in ALSA, and the special ways these apps uses ALSA.Ĭurrently there are three patches for "pulse" that probably can solve the problems with Wine combined with ALSA/pulse. These problems should not occur in Flash v. The sound is supposed to go through the "pulse" plugin in ALSA, that passes it to PulseAudio, where it get mixed with all other sound, and passed on to a audio interface. 9 and earlier, Wine and Skype when these applications use the ALSA protocol. There may be problems with getting sound from Adobe Flash v.
PulseAudio is the standard sound server in Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04. Things like transferring the audio to a different machine, changing the sample format or channel count and mixing several sounds into one are easily achieved using a sound server. It allows you to do advanced operations on your sound data as it passes between your application and your hardware. A sound server is basically a proxy for your sound applications. PulseAudio is a sound server for POSIX and Win32 systems.