Sending a wav file means a TCP connection between two computers. TCP connections are the most common type of traffic, and the hardware is optimized accordingly. UDP multicast is different, and apparently network hardware is not necessarily as efficient with processing that protocol. Comment #9 seems to suggest that the wifi specification itself forces multicast to be inefficient, so it's not necessarily just the hardware's fault.
Starting from PA version 5.0, module-rtp-send should not generate traffic when nothing is playing (it can still be configured to play silence, but paprefs doesn't configure the module that way). If you observe different behaviour, please file a new bug and attach the output of "pactl list". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411688 Title: pulseaudio floods network with multicast packets To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pulseaudio/+bug/411688/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
