From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 23 19:17:50 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0D28106566B for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:17:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE1598FC15 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:17:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n2NJInmk076795; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:18:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:17:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:17:44 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Wojciech Puchar Message-ID: <20090323191744.GA5405@thought.org> References: <20090322233056.GA41297@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: networked audio X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:17:51 -0000 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. thanks much, gary -- 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