[arch-general] pavucontrol depency question

[Maarten de Vries]

On 20 Mar 2017 10:41 a.m., "ProgAndy" <admin at progandy.de> wrote:

Am 20.03.2017 um 10:06 schrieb Christoph Gysin via arch-general:

> pavucontrol works fine without pulseaudio, if you control another
> machine's pulseaudio instance over the network:
>
>     $ PULSE_SERVER=another-box pavucontrol
>
> Not sure about xfce4 packages, don't use them.
>
> Hi,

You can use the pulseaudio client library to send audio to a pulseaudio
server in your network. That works only for software using libpulse,
though. It probably won't work for connections through pulseaudio-alsa.


pulseaudio-alsa works fine with a remote pulse server if you properly
configure the client library. My desktop has streamed all audio to a
different device for years without problem. And that included audio from
alsa-only applications.

-- Maarten