Listening to RTP multicast

This article describes  using  other tools besides pulseaudio(module_rtp_recv) to listen to audio mutlticast audio sent by pulseaudio server.

reference:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Network/RTP

1: deciding RTP multicast address/port

tcpdump -n net 224.0.0.0/8 -c 10

1. Examine the output, for example

12:18:20.404866 IP 10.54.5.9.33043 > 224.0.0.56.46454: UDP, length 1292

2: using mplay

mplayer -cache 2048 -demuxer rawaudio -rawaudio format=0x20776172 rtp://[addr]:[port]

3: using vlc

vlc rtp://[addr]:[port]/

4: using rtpdump & aplay

4.1: Download rtptool and compile

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/irt/software/rtptools/download/)

4.2: using the cmd:

rtpdump -F payload [addr]/[port] | aplay -f cdr

e.g.:

eric@eric-ubuntu-12:~/Downloads/rtptools-1.18$ ./rtpdump -F payload 224.0.0.56/46400 | aplay -f cdr
Playing raw data 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Big Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo