On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:39 PM, gregwm <tclugl at whitleymott.net> wrote: > i want to watch dvd's on one box and hear the sound out the soundcard on > another. shouldn't that be simple? i can hear sound just fine with esd, > mplayer, vlc, audacity, clearly local sound works. but remote sound is > eluding me. esd makes nice beeps but esdplay doesn't seem to play through > it. vlc commandline has convoluted server/client options, i managed to > satisfy the syntax and it said it connected but i didn't hear any sound. > jack_netsource ought to do it, it happily says "connected", and many of > these apps recognize jackd if it's running, but jackd never produces sound > for me, remote or local, it clearly takes over alsa and i can watch it > connect when launching "mplayer -ao jack sound-sample.wav" but i hear > nothing until jackd is no longer running. sheesh, i'm sure there's a simple > answer somewhere....? Looks like pulse audio can do this. I found this rather old article, but it can be a start: http://razor.occams.info/blog/2009/02/11/pulseaudio-sound-forwarding-across-a-network/ -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.