[gavv42]

> Would this make any difference?

If you have no issues with 1) latency 2) packet losses and 3) clocks difference, that would be no difference, at least until Roc could offer some new encodings.

(If you're using PA, it handles the clocks difference for you. Its RTP transport sometimes worked strange for me, but its "native" tunnels handled it well.)

> Does it currently support online plug-unplug the way RTP works without restarting pulseaudio?

Roc sinks and sink inputs may be loaded and unloaded at any time without restarting PA. But there is no service discovery yet, which means that 1) when a remote sink input appears, sink is not automatically added 2) when a remote sink input disappears, sink is not automatically removed. (We will add this in upcoming releases). Currently the remote sink input can appear and disappear at any time and the local sink will just continue streaming packets to the specified address.

[gimes4dieni]

This is exactly what I did - creating an ALSA plugin and leveraging snd-loopback to pass PCM to a streaming process. I would be interested in incorporating your protocol into SlimStreamer. Currently it uses SlimProto, which is TCP based (so sync part is a nightmare to get working on a reasonable level). How far are you with supporting multiple sampling rates and multiple receivers?

[gavv42]

Great!

> How far are you with supporting multiple sampling rates

Roc currently supports arbitrary input/output rates but only a single network rate (44100). If the network rate differs from the input/output rate, Roc performs resampling.

We're now finishing the 0.1 release, and I was planning to add support for more network encodings, including more rates, in 0.2. Feel free to file an issue or mail us with a list of encoding/rates you need.

> and multiple receivers?

No support yet. If you use a multicast address, it would probably just work though.

Again, feel free to file an issue and describe what you would expect from such support. I'll be happy to implement it if someone needs it.

Another question is how Roc will interact with your sync part. How do you perform synchronization?