howto play audio here and hear it there

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Gerhard Magnus <magnus at agora.rdrop.com>wrote:

> I'm running Fedora 11 with the gnome desktop on a small LAN. I'd like to
> run an audio player (say xmms) on box2 and hear it on box1, which is
> directly connected to my stereo.
>
> In the past I would connect to box1 from box2 via ssh and then run xmms
> from the command line. Now when I try doing this I get this message:
>
> Couldn't open audio. Please check that
> Your soundcard is configured properly
> You have the correct output plugin selected
> No other program is blocking the soundcard.
>
> I can play audio with problems from box1, so the soundcard must be OK.
> I have pulseaudio selected as the output plugin in xmms. (The same
> problem occurs with alsa and the other plugins.)
> It seems likely, then, that the problem is some other program is running
> on box1 that is blocking use of the soundcard.
>
> Two related questions:
> (1) Does anyone know what other program this might be (gnome?) and how I
> might get around the block?
> (2) Isn't this the sort of simple application pulseaudio was designed
> for? Shouldn't I be able to run xmms on box2 and use pulseaudio to play
> the output on box1? Has anyone been able to do anything like this with
> pulseaudio and, if so, what settings did you use and where did you set
> them?
>
>
There are several better alternatives for what you want,
than using xmms and ssh:

ampache
mpd
gnump3d
icecast

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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