On 22.11.2014 21:12, poma wrote: > On 22.11.2014 20:07, poma wrote: >> On 22.11.2014 18:34, Mike Wright wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I need help understanding sound cards and remote machines. >>> >>> If I use rdesktop to connect to a remote machine and I start a music or >>> video player there, does the remote machine need to have a sound card in >>> order form me to be able to play the sound locally (where there is a >>> sound card)? >>> >>> I hope that makes sense. >>> >>> TIA, >>> Mike Wright >>> >> >> If you have a sufficiently long speaker cables. :) >> You can always try using Cat5/6 cable as audio cable also, although this is a bit too short for internets. >> Perhaps it's enough just to direct the sound to network, something like a stream. >> >> > > Yeah, this is something related to client/server software, > not particularly related to server machine sound hardware. > google: rdp necessary to install audio hardware > > And probably applies to all remote desktop solutions independent of platform. > BTW related to RDP in general, I find this interesting for one sole reason, RDP backend has become a part of Weston - the reference compositor for Wayland - that will replace X11 in the near future. Although the audio portion is likely to be resolved, if not already, through PulseAudio. poma http://wayland.freedesktop.org http://www.freerdp.com http://www.hardening-consulting.com/en/posts/20131006an-overview-of-the-rdp-backend-in-weston.html http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Network/ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
