{"id":2228,"date":"2008-09-22T09:01:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T09:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t.motd.kr\/articles\/2228\/streaming-audio-from-windows-to-pulseaudio-server"},"modified":"2022-12-28T01:45:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T16:45:35","slug":"streaming-audio-from-windows-to-pulseaudio-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vault.motd.kr\/wordpress\/posts\/2228\/streaming-audio-from-windows-to-pulseaudio-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Streaming Audio from Windows to PulseAudio Server"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulseaudio.org\/\">PulseAudio<\/a> is a great network audio server for Linux. It allows me to stream audio between machines. However, the biggest problem with PulseAudio is that it doesn\u2019t have a descent client implementation for Windows. There are a couple known workarounds such as using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clingman.org\/winesd\/\">WinESD<\/a>, but they are all pretty experimental. Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cendio.com\/pulseaudio\">the Win32 binary build<\/a> didn\u2019t work for me, perhaps because it\u2019s somewhat outdated and buggy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My first try was to use <a href=\"http:\/\/liveincode.rm.pp.ru\/\">LineInCode<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/joncraton.org\/files\/nc111nt.zip\">Netcat for Windows<\/a> on the client side and to use <code>module-simple-protocol-tcp<\/code> on the server side. After adding <code>-L \"module-simple-protocol-tcp port=4712 rate=44100 format=s16le channels=2\"<\/code> option to the PulseAudio startup option, I was able to stream audio from Windows to PulseAudio server using the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>linco.exe -B 16 -C 2 -R 44100 | nc.exe &lt;host> 4712<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>However, PulseAudio dies whenever the connection is closed because of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulseaudio.org\/ticket\/363\">a known issue of <code>module-simple-protocol-tcp<\/code><\/a>. I wrote some script that restarts PulseAudio whenever it dies, but I realized there\u2019s a better solution \u2013 OpenSSH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have installed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cygwin.com\/\">Cygwin<\/a> build of OpenSSH, and replaced Netcat with it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>linco.exe -B 16 -C 2 -R 44100 | ssh.exe &lt;user@host> \"cat - | pacat --playback\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This solution works without <code>module-simple-protocol-tcp<\/code>, and therefore there\u2019s no need to restart the PulseAudio server on disconnection. Better security is another bonus. Instead, it requires a running <span class=\"caps\">SSH<\/span> server. If <span class=\"caps\">SSHD<\/span> is not running in the PulseAudio server, you can give it a little twist:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>linco.exe -B 16 -C 2 -R 44100 | ssh.exe &lt;user@otherhost> \"cat - | pacat --server &lt;host> --playback\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>In case your Windows machine doesn\u2019t have a sound card or it doesn\u2019t allow you to capture the audio stream, you might want to use <a href=\"http:\/\/software.muzychenko.net\/eng\/vac.html\">Virtual Audio Cable<\/a>. It\u2019s a commercial software, but it is worth a purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might also want to <a href=\"\/en\/archives\/1568\">set up a passwordless login<\/a> so you don\u2019t have to enter the password every time you stream the audio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PulseAudio is a great network audio server for Linux. It allows me to stream audio between machines. 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