[MPlayer-users] Re: mplayer sound over ssh ?

[Michel Bardiaux]

Tobias Diedrich wrote:

> Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm interested. How exactly do you do it? Specifically, do you know a 
>>way to do it to a Win32 machine? (I mean I would like my X-server, which 
>>is cygwin-xfree under W2k, to have sound too, possibly using SDL or ARTS 
>>on the client side)
> 
> 
> You can use NAS (Network Audio System, http://radscan.com/nas.html) to
> play audio on remote systems.  NAS Clients usually use the AUDIOSERVER
> and DISPLAY environment variables to figure out where to send the
> audiostream to.  However NAS is quite old and AFAIK the protocol has
> no way of querying the server side buffer size and delay, but it
> supports X-Style extensions (It is based on the X11 protocol), although
> I think noone has designed any extensions so far.
> The audiostream is sent uncompressed, so it is only suitable for LAN
> connections.
> 
Is it possible to use mplayer with NAS?

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