Upstreaming progress?

[redfast00]

Hi! Our pulseaudio audio setup over the network is currently very choppy when playing music over the network with Pulseaudio (we use the native TCP-based protocol), so I was looking for something that could be better. I came across roc, and I think UDP and FEC would really help. In the blog post, I read that eventually, a roc plugin might get upstreamed into Pulseaudio (if they accept). Has there been talk with the Pulseaudio people yet? What do they think?

[gavv]

Hi,

Yes, I was always thinking about upstreaming the modules, but so far I never had a chance to find time for it. This process will need to make several improvements in the modules - support idle, support changing several parameters on fly, and others.

[tomodachi]

Many Linux distributions already package the roc modules for pipewire/pulseaudio.
At least I know both Fedora 40 and Arch Linux do.
If you are happy with those distributions then getting network streaming working shouldn't be to hard.

[gavv]

Pipewire has its own modules for roc (1, 2), and they're packaged in distros. But I'm not aware of any roc-pulse packages?

With pipewire replacing pulseaudio nowadays, I think roc-pulse will be eventually deprecated as well. For now I continue to maintain it (not very actively though), because people still have pulseaudio installations, and because roc-pulse still provide more options compared to pipewire modules.