Pulseaudio does not play sound over the network

[sciram]

Hello everyone,
After updating PulseAudio to version 16.1, audio stopped playing over the network. Server - 13.2-RELEASE-p8, client - 13.2-RELEASE-p7

server config:

# cat /usr/local/etc/pulse/default.pa | grep tcp
load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-anonymous=1

server error:

# pulseaudio -vvv
...
I: [(null)] socket-server.c: TCP connection accepted by tcpwrap.
I: [(null)] client.c: Created 1 "Native client (TCP/IP client from 10.78.100.137:53370)"
I: [(null)] protocol-native.c: Client authenticated anonymously.
I: [(null)] client.c: Freed 1 "Native client (TCP/IP client from 10.78.100.137:53370)"
I: [(null)] protocol-native.c: Connection died.

client config:

# cat /usr/local/etc/pulse/default.pa
load-module module-native-protocol-unix
load-module module-native-protocol-tcp
load-module module-tunnel-sink sink_name=tunnel1 server=10.78.100.100:4713
set-default-sink tunnel1

client error:

# pulseaudio -vvv
...
I: [(null)] main.c: Daemon startup complete.
D: [(null)] module-tunnel.c: Connection established, authenticating ...
W: [(null)] module-tunnel.c: Stream died.
...

if I run PulseAudio version 14.2 on the same server and client, everything works

Would you have any idea please?

 

[laufdi]

On 14.0-STABLE:
I can't play anything via pulseaudio, neither with a local pulseaudio or a remote linux server with pipewire-pulse, for example

> PULSE_SERVER=server mpv -ao pulse some.file

[ao/pulse] Init failed: Connection terminated
[ao] Failed to initialize audio driver 'pulse'
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.

Same problem with vlc, while it works from linux to linux, but also not from linux to the FreeBSD pulseaudio.

 

[Jay F. Shachter]

If anyone has solved this problem, please tell us how, because I have the same problem. I have not tested FreeBSD as a pulseaudio server, but FreeBSD is definitely failing as a pulseaudio client. I am running a pulseaudio server on a Linux client with no firewall, at IP address 192.168.1.42. I cannot get mpv on FreeBSD to connect to it. Mpv reports "[ao/pulse] Init failed: Connection terminated" both when I set PULSE_SERVER to 192.168.1.42 and when I set it more explicitly to tcp:192.168.1.42:4713. My system is 14.0-RELEASE-p5