[MPlayer-users] mplayer sound over ssh ?

[Michel Bardiaux]

Jan Knutar wrote:

>>Actually, one can setup ssh to forward *any* specific TCP port. What is 
>>special in X11 forwarding is the forwarding of *dynamic* port numbers.
> 
> 
> What is special in X11 forwarding is ssh automatically adjusting your xauth.
> There's nothing "dynamic" about it. If you want "dynamic" port forwarding
> of sorts, see the -D option in OpenSSH.
> 
I did not express myself precisely, but "nothing dynamic" is too strong. 
Ssh forwards X11 *using* dynamically chosen port numbers. Make 2 'ssh 
-X' to the same machine, you end up with 2 sessions with different 
values of DISPLAY, like one to localhost:10.0 (port 6010) the other to 
port 6011.

I did not know about -D, sounds interesting. Unfortunately the man page 
is somewhat obscure, stating "Currently the SOCKS4 protocol is 
supported", what does this exactly mean?

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