Good day.
I am setting up basic, "manual" network-transparency on my local network
using alsa. Getting sound data from "server" to "player" is easily
accomplished with the "file" plugin and netcat:
[rene@server ~]$ cat .asoundrc
pcm.player {
type file
slave.pcm "null"
file "| nc player <port>"
}
[rene@server ~]$ aplay -D player foo.wav
... where on "player" I have a listener running that does:
"nc -l -p <port> server | aplay -t raw -f cd"
(never mind this only working until aplay on "server" closes its output
for now; it's only a minimal example)
I was wondering/expecting if/that there is a nicer way to do this on
"player", though. Specifically, I was expecting to be able to mirror the
server-side of things by defining a "server" PCM on player that
*captured* from "nc -l -p <port> server |", after which I'd use a
daemonized "alsaloop" as my actual player-application.
Am I right in believing this to not be the case? I tried all sorts of
variants of "infile" or slave definitions, but nothing worked. It seems
a little unexpected though, so thought I'd ask before giving up on it.
(please note by the way that I'm aware of the more involved solutions
such as pulse or nas; I'm trying to avoid them).
Regards,
Rene
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