Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:54:06 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: networked audio Message-ID: <20090323215405.GA10111@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20090323205027.GA41513@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20090322233056.GA41297@thought.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903231112400.14306@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090323191744.GA5405@thought.org> <20090323205027.GA41513@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:50:27PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:17:44PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:13:17AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >This ought to be a fast, binary question: are there any [relatively] > > > >simple ways to set up a utility to play sounds [or sound+video] on a > > > >remote computer (say, 25m apart) and have the mp3/au/wav/ogg files on > > > >the distant computer and the audio play thru the nice speaker system in > > > >my office? > > > > > > > > > cat mp3files|rsh -l username remote.computer.name "mpg123 -" > > > > Well, that's simple enough:) plus being pretty sharp because it > > works. "mplayer -" works from the cmd line but tries and fails > > to seek backward to the origin. > > Have you looked at audio/xmms2? It uses a client/server model but is > audio only. [http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/Main_Page] > > Other possibilities is a UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) server and > clients. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPnP_AV_MediaServers] > > Some modern stereo equipment (e.g. Philips Streamium) has ethernet/WiFi > capability and can play material from a UPnP media server. So you could > have your music/video library on a server, with your stereo playing > music from that library over a wireless link. Cool eh? > > I'm not sure if these things fall in the "simple" category, though. :-) > Especially if there's wifi involved as well. Wow. No wifi yet; still have a maze of cables. My stereo stuff in from the last century:-) but it's nice to know that the newer equipment has ethernet capabilities. Be great to have some utimate setup (*sigh...*). For now, what Wojciech suggested works, but since most of my ~/Music files are ogg format, mpg123 may not be sufficient. ``locate xmms2'' found audio/gxmms2; under construction! T.Y. gary > > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.41a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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