On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:11:16AM -0400, Jim Eastman wrote: > A friend of mine is having some issues moving audio around a network. > Me being not all that good at this stuff myself was at a loss as to > how to help him. I was hoping somebody here may be able to offer some > advice. While I see how netcat would be useful in this situation, I'd strongly suggest he look into using esd to do it. esd can listen on a network socket and it has nice front ends, esdplay and esdcat to direct audio around various sockets on whatever hosts. Ross > > Thanks! > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Apr 9, 2007 6:58 PM > Subject: Linux audio troubles. > To: vitruvius@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > I'm trying to move audio (from radios) between a desktop, which will > be on the roof, and my laptop, which will be in the consuite. The > idea is to take a signal coming in the desktop's mic jack and make it > come out the laptop's speakers and vice versa. > > A while back, I got this pretty much working (there was a bit of lag) > with something like > > bunsen@laptop# nc -l -p 4242 > /dev/dsp > bunsen@desktop# nc -l -p 4243 > /dev/dsp > bunsen@desktop# nc laptop.example.tld 4242 < /dev/dsp > bunsen@laptop# nc desktop.example.tld 4243 < /dev/dsp > > That worked with my Thinkpad T41 and an old small form factor K6/2-450 > desktop, both running Ubuntu. That desktop turned out to have some > flaky hardware, so I switched to an old, normal-sized Duron 850 > machine running Debian. Now when I try that, *wierd* shit happens. > > I had the two machines next to each other, network cards wired > together. I ran those commands, and started making sounds into the > laptop's microphone, while listening to headphones plugged into the > desktop. I'd hear background noise, then a bit of whatever sound I'd > recently made near the mic, looped a few times, then back to > background noise. > > I dunno if this has something to do with configuration, drivers, > hardware, or waving the dead chicken over the computer in the wrong > pattern. If you know how to fix it, or know of a better way to move > that sound across the network, I'd appreciate the advice. > > Bunsen > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user -- Ross Vandegrift ross@xxxxxxxxxxx "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell." --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
