Pulse Audio RTP Multicast receiver on Debian

Pulse Audio RTP Multicast receiver on Debian

 

[General]

This is to describe to build for an rtp audio multicastreceiver by Pulse Audio.

 

[Operation System Environment]

Debian (debian-6.0.4-i386-netinst.iso), run on:

VMware Player (4.0.2 build-591240), run on:

Ubuntu 10.10

 

[Network connection Environment]

ETH0: NAT (used to connect to internet)

ETH1: Bridged to a Physical adapter, inner connection for Multicastgroup.

 

[Basic software configuration]

1: network config

eric@debian-media-6:~$cat /etc/network/interfaces

# This filedescribes the network interfaces available on your system

# and how toactivate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

 

# The eth0 networkinterface

auto eth0

iface eth0 inetdhcp

 

# The eth1 networkinterface

auto eth1

iface eth1 inet static

        address 192.168.2.32

        netmask 255.255.255.0

 

# The loopbacknetwork interface

auto lo

iface lo inetloopback

2: proxy config (optional)

eric@debian-media-6:~$cat /etc/apt/apt.conf

Acquire::http::proxy"http://proxy01.cd.XXXXX.com:911/";

Acquire::ftp::proxy"ftp://proxy01.cd.XXXXX.com:911/";

Acquire::https::proxy"https://proxy01.cd.XXXXX.com:911/";

3: apt source list config

Adding the following to /etc/apt/source.list

###### Debian MainRepos

deb http://ftp.cn.debian.org/debian/squeeze main contrib non-free

deb-srchttp://ftp.cn.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

and do apt-get update

4: Multi-cast group config

Adding the following line to /etc/rc.local

route add -net224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev eth1

 

[Necessary software installs]

apt-get install gcc

apt-get install m4

apt-get install intltool

apt-get install libtool

apt-get install libjson0-dev

apt-get install sndfile

apt-get install libsndfile1-dev

apt-get install speexdsp

apt-get install libspeexdsp-dev

apt-get install make

apt-get install libudev-dev

apt-get install libasound2-dev

apt-get install alsa

 

[Make sure sound card works fine]

1: enable sound hardware in virtual machine settings

2: make sure sound is not muted by using alsamixer

3: use speaker-test to test whether sound could be heard.

 

[Build & Install PulseAudio]

1: unzip src ball

$unxzpulseaudio-1.1.tar.xz

$tar xvfpulseaudio-1.1.tar

2: configure & make

$mkdir build

$cd build

$../configure

$make

3: install (make sure to have root privilege)

#make

#ldconfig          //make sure to update Library path

 

 

[A simple test pulseaudio]

$pulseaudio –C            //run on commend line

>>> load-module module-rtp-recv                //you should hearsound when sever send audio data now

 

[More elaborate configuration]

1: modify the default.pa at /usr/local/etc/pulse/default.pa

         Adding load-module module-rtp-recv at the end ofthe file

 

Appendix:

[Audio Test]

speaker-test

 

[Rtp multicast stream test]

To test whether there exists net rtp streams

#apt-get install tcp-dump

#tcpdump -n net 224.0.0.0/8 -c 10

root@debian-media-6:/home/eric#tcpdump -n net 224.0.0.0/8 -c 10 -i eth1

tcpdump: verboseoutput suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode

listening on eth1,link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes

16:41:59.998297 IP192.168.2.23.34529 > 224.0.0.56.46674: UDP, length 1292

16:41:59.998304 IP192.168.2.23.34529 > 224.0.0.56.46674: UDP, length 1292

16:42:00.005708 IP192.168.2.23.34529 > 224.0.0.56.46674: UDP, length 1292

16:42:00.005716 IP192.168.2.23.34529 > 224.0.0.56.46674: UDP, length 1292

16:42:00.013742 IP192.168.2.23.34529 > 224.0.0.56.46674: UDP, length 1292

16:42:00.013749 IP192.168.2.23.34529 > 224.0.0.56.46674: UDP, length 1292

16:42:00.022229 IP192.168.2.23.34529 > 224.0.0.56.46674: UDP, length 1292

16:42:00.022235 IP192.168.2.23.34529 > 224.0.0.56.46674: UDP, length 1292

16:42:00.029444 IP192.168.2.23.34529 > 224.0.0.56.46674: UDP, length 1292

16:42:00.029450 IP192.168.2.23.34529 > 224.0.0.56.46674: UDP, length 1292

10 packets captured

18 packets receivedby filter

0 packets droppedby kernel