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

[The Wanderer]

Michel Bardiaux wrote:

> 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?

I believe so, yes.

mplayer -ao nas

seems like a likely candidate.

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