On 7/18/07, greg wm wrote: > i want to capture sound along with a remote vnc session and play it > where i'm viewing the session (eg running firefox and sometimes flash). > i can't even come up with the proper incantation to the google god, i > get incessant irrelevant answers. > > esd supposedly makes this easy, but i'm in need of a clue. (fc5) I got curious, and the only relevant document I came across via some random Googling was a howto targeted at linux server -> windows client (http://www.liquid-reality.de/main/projects/esound). I haven't tried it, so it may need tinkering to get it to work: <snip (edited a bit for a *nix->*nix connection)> On the client: $ esd -tcp -public On the server: $ ESPEAKER=<ip>:16001 <app> Where <ip> is the ip address of your client, and <app> is the application whose audio you want to send to the remote machine. </snip> I don't know how picky you are about A/V sync, but I'd imagine that it would be annoying for watching, e.g., a flash video. I also don't know if firefox will use esd by default on your system. You may need to set FIREFOX_DSP to "esd" (see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=84371 -- an Ubuntu forum thread, I realize, but relevant). You could give it a shot, though. If you're flexible as to the remote desktop app, you could try using freenx with an nx client. I believe audio is directly supported by freenx, and the visuals are generally quite a bit snappier than VNC, especially over slower links. sm