From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 23 20:50:35 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 897C01065677 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:50:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr17.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr17.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.37]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0223D8FC18 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:50:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr17.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n2NKoR2k051938; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:50:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 90114BA97; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:50:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:50:27 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20090323205027.GA41513@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20090322233056.GA41297@thought.org> <20090323191744.GA5405@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AhhlLboLdkugWU4S" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090323191744.GA5405@thought.org> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: Wojciech Puchar , 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 20:50:36 -0000 --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? > >=20 > >=20 > > cat mp3files|rsh -l username remote.computer.name "mpg123 -" >=20 > 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. =20 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. Roland --=20 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) --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAknH9hMACgkQEnfvsMMhpyXVKQCfaJQsD7/AXyVS/KxFH8i3LWPd mAgAn3zxYuNfNPJ4dmTMDt0fF+CbdO0R =54d3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S--