rdesktop and sound

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Sun Nov 11 13:33:13 UTC 2007


      * On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 14:25 -0500, Jim Andreu wrote:
> Jamie Bohr wrote:
> > I am using, or at least trying to get sound to work with rdesktop to a 
> > Windows XP Pro. client.  I googled tried different options, (-r 
> > sound:local, -r sound:remote, -0, ...) and even tried tsclient, the 
> > sound alway plays on the XP system.  Can someone guide me to a 
> > resource on how to get sound to play from my XP rdesktop connection on 
> > my Linux desktop?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > -- 
> > Jamie Bohr
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> I use rdesktop  -r sound:local  and get the sound back to my Linux box 
> just fine.
> 

Be ware that AFAIR - rdesktop is still using the age old OSS interface
to play the sound - which, in turn my collide with other audio
applications.

- Gilboa




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