Bug 62636

Summary: SAP announcements contain wrong information
Product: PulseAudio Reporter: William Smith <wrsmith>
Component: modulesAssignee: pulseaudio-bugs
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact: pulseaudio-bugs
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: lennart, wrsmith
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments: python script to listen to SAP announcements from PulseAudio.

Description William Smith 2013-03-22 13:03:30 UTC
Created attachment 76905 [details]
python script to listen to SAP announcements from PulseAudio.

I set up two Ubuntu machines, both with PulseAudio. 

In one machine (Ubuntu 12.04), I set it up to act as a network audio device. In the other machine (Ubuntu 12.10), I set it up to use the network audio device.

I took a tcpdump of the traffic going between the two computers. I extracted the PCM audio. I was unable to play it with the parameters from the SAP announcement, which are as follows. The garbled characters were also there in the announcement. I captured the SAP announcement using a small python script (attached).

 u]
�kapplication/sdpv=0
o=william 3572777767 0 IN IP4 192.168.1.23
s=PulseAudio RTP Stream on william-X101CH
c=IN IP4 224.0.0.56
t=3572777767 0
a=recvonly
m=audio 46194 RTP/AVP 10
a=rtpmap:10 L16/44100/2
a=type:broadcast

When I played back the audio I extracted from the tcpdump, I was able to play it like this. As you can see, the parameters are quite different from the SAP announcements.

aplay -t raw -c 2 -f S32_LE -r 44100 myrawaudio.dat

(The parameters from the SAP announcement just caused it to play white noise.)
Comment 1 Daniel Stone 2018-07-30 10:06:48 UTC
Temporarily resolving to migrate to GitLab.
Comment 2 Tanu Kaskinen 2018-07-30 12:45:43 UTC
I created the issue manually:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/issues/557

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