Colin Guthrie wrote: > Ulf Behrens wrote: > >> sorry for being not very precise on what I want to do. >> Let me try again: >> I want to listen to some drm restricted music coming from napster or itunes >> The only speakers which are worth to be called speakers are connected to >> a linux box (in my office as well as at home). >> I don't need any 'noise' coming out of the speakers of my laptop, but my >> laptop is the only windows computer around. >> >> I was already able to get a test setup running but I'm not happy with >> the network traffic I'm producing: I'm sending the data once via a tcp >> connection from my laptop pa server to my linux pa server and then the >> linux server is sending the data once again via rtp to itself. >> In order to avoid the rtp traffic I'm looking for a way to send data >> from a pa source to a pa sink. As Colin proposed I'm going to look into >> gstreamer which seems to allow what I want >> > > Judging by your comments above, I'd go back to my previous mail before I > suggested the whole gstreamer thing. > > What you want is a tunnel from laptop to linux. Then you just want to > move the output stream to the tunnel. This is a very simple setup and > doesn't require any complicated setup (at least on linux->linux - I've > not tried on Windows so perhaps something doesn't work properly on this > platform. I will need to play to say for sure!) > > > The pipeline I suggested before was correct I think: > > iTunes -> Win PA server -> Tunnel from Win-Lin -> Lin PA server -> > soundcard -> speakers -> ears. > I'm afraid I'm too stupid to see the most obvious solution and so I'm confusing everyone... the pipeline above is in principle what I want. The problem is: I want to listen to a 'source' on the Win PA server! The data is available as something like a virtual line input. Normally one would use rtp-send to forward this stream as described in the documentation but the rtp modules are not available on windows. And since I'm not very familiar with windows I have to be happy with what I have on the windows side. I'm able to tunnel my Win PA source stream to the Lin PA. As expected I'm getting a new source inside my Lin PA. And when I start a vumeter for this source stream I can see the music I would like to hear. What to do then, how to send the stream data from a source to a sink? Maybe something like: PA source -> socket -> netcat -> socket -> PA sink via the simple protocol or PA source -> gstreamer -> PA sink or any other idea? regards, ulf
