On Sat, 31.05.08 22:35, Fog_Watch (db5 at exemail.com.au) wrote: > I am a total PulseAudio/esd noob. Sorry, I just can't figure this one > out. > > I am wanting to send sound from my Proliant application server to an old > client X box. I don't know whether this is possible. > > I set up the server with PA 0.9.10 and Mplayer dev-SVN-r26753-4.1.2 > (recent). I can play an audio file with Mplayer and see a "stream" > appear in the PA Manager and go out over the network. > > The client box is an old Slackware thing. I can however successfully > "mpg123 <sound file>" and hear the file. I thought that I might be > able to do something like: > # esd -port 4713 # version 0.2.35 (year 2005) > to capture the "sink" from the Proliant box and sent it to the sound > card. All I get is bothersome silence. > > Is it possible to send sound from PA to ESD in this way? Yes? Ummm. > Port wrong for esd? Anything else? esd doesn't have any timing information. If you want to use mplayer remotely on an esd server with lip-sync audio, then you won't have much success. PA has a module "module-esound-sink" which you can use to create a virtual sink that sends all data to a local or remote esd sink. Please note however, that esd is a mess, don't use it. No timing, no nothing. Bad stuff. YMMV. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
