[MPlayer-users] mplayer sound over ssh ?

[Jan Knutar]

> 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?

Specify, for example, -D 4242 on the command line. Set your favourite 
browser to use a socks 4 proxy on localhost:4242. SSH will now 
dynamically create tunnels as necessary to the sites you browse.