[NTLUG:Discuss] sound card server?

Jack Snodgrass jack at jacksnodgrass.com
Sun Dec 12 07:33:54 CST 2004


On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 06:59 -0600, Jack Snodgrass wrote:

> I know that there are hardware solutions for what I'm looking for, but I
> want
> to know if there are any sofware solutions......
> 
> I have multiple PCs. I'd like to use one PC that has a sound card and
> speakers 
> to act as a sound card server. I.E. I play an MP3 or AVI Video on boxA,
> the 
> sound is sent to boxB and played on it's sound card and speakers. 
> 
> Once final 'catch'... boxB is a evil-windows box.  ( My kids games only
> play on evil-windows ) 
> 
> So... I'd like to have my kids evil-windows box be the sound server for
> my 
> linux box when I play MP3s or videos on it. 
> 
> Is this possible?
> 


ok... I did more google searches and I found what I need. 

I'm running esd.exe ( from http://www.liquid-
reality.de/main/projects/esound ) 
on my evil-windows box and told linux to use this as the esound server. 

Now I just need to use esound supported clients. 

-- 
Jack Snodgrass <jack at jacksnodgrass.com>


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