OT: sound cards on remote machines?

[poma]

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/