On 02 February, 2011 - Yves (theYinYeti) wrote: > Hello, > > Le 02/02/2011 09:50, rozelak at volny.cz a ?crit : >> Hallo >> I would like to ask if there is (planned) something as -X option in ssh for >> PulseAudio as well. I know from the pulseaudio FAQ that it supports >> playback over the network, but I would like to have it working >> transparently - playing on my desktop office computer when I sitting in >> from of it, or playing through my laptop speakers when ssh-ing to the >> office desktop and invoking *play commands on the desktop remotely. > > I'm far from being a pulseaudio expert, but I remember someone wrote that > this can't be done transparently for now. > However, doesn't pulseaudio listen on a TCP port? If so, let's assume > this port to be 1234, then something along the lines of this should work > : > > client>$ ssh -R 1234:localhost:1234 server > ... > server>$ export PULSE_SERVER=localhost:1234 > (I'm not sure about the name of the env variable) > I would sugest to use unix sockets instead of tcp to get some control who on the remote machine can get access to your pulse-server. eg: logon to the remote machine and prepare the enviorment there. local$ ssh remote remote$ mkdir -m 700 /tmp/pulse-remote remote$ export PULSE_SERVER=unix:/tmp/pulse-remote/native use a separate terminal to create a remote listening socket: local$ socat EXEC:'ssh remote "socat STDIO UNIX-LISTEN:/tmp/pulse-remote/native"' UNIX-CONNECT:$HOME/.pulse/`cat /var/lib/dbus/machine-id`-runtime/native play some music in your remote terminal. remote$ mplayer my-music.mp3 //Anton -- Anton Lundin +46702-161604
