[MPlayer-users] mplayer sound over ssh ?

[The Wanderer]

Hans du Plooy wrote:

> On Tuesday 29 June 2004 22:00, Javier Sanchez Monzon wrote:
> 
>> Hi list,
>> 
>> i would like to hear my music using mplayer at a remote computer.
>> 
>> I have at home my mplayer programm.  I connect via ssh to my home,
>> and then start mplayer.  I only can see the video but no sound.
> 
> Your sound is still getting played by the remote machine, as ssh
> doesn't do sound forwarding.
> 
> Somewhere out there I read of a sshfs project.  With this you could
> mount a directory on the remote PC locally (like you would with
> smbfs) and play (with local mplayer) off that.

That sounds like shfs, which I use across my LAN; access is a little
slow sometimes, but it works quite well. Let's see... Of course.

http://shfs.sourceforge.net/

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