Remote sound card.

Hi,
I am trying to use my home-theater amplifier for playing sound from laptop.

What do I have:
1). Linux (Fedora 8) box connected to amplifier using analog signal
(will be digital in future),
2). Win$ XP SP3 laptop on which I want to play videos/dvds, BUT having
sound thru amplifier.
3). Ethernet 100M connection between boxes.

What I have found is WinESD (dead project?) on XP side and esound on
Linux. For the moment I have successfully compiled latest 0.2.41 esound
and installed "vitrual soundcard" on XP. But this does not work :(
Driver seems to connect to Linux machine, there are packets sent to it,
but NO sound.
On the other side, if I issue
esdplay -s 192.168.2.5:5001 /mnt/C/windows/media/notify.wav on Linux
box, sound płays.

More, there is NO debug output from esd, even started with debug options:
esd -tcp -port 5001 -public -vt -vc -d hw:0

It simply prints:
- accepting connections on port 5001
- enabling trace diagnostic info
- enabling comms diagnostic info
- using device hw:0

but no one letter more.

Please help/give some advice.

W.P.
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[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 18:10 +0200, W.P. wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to use my home-theater amplifier for playing sound from laptop.
>
> What do I have:
> 1). Linux (Fedora 8) box connected to amplifier using analog signal
> (will be digital in future),
> 2). Win$ XP SP3 laptop on which I want to play videos/dvds, BUT having
> sound thru amplifier.
> 3). Ethernet 100M connection between boxes.

Nobody will want to support esound I'm afraid.

Try using PulseAudio instead. There's some articles on the net:
http://gleamynode.net/articles/2228/

You can probably also use PulseAudio on the Windows machine, and export
the sound to your Linux machine:
http://www.cendio.com/pulseaudio/

Cheers

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Użytkownik Bastien Nocera napisał:

> On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 18:10 +0200, W.P. wrote:
>  
>> Hi,
>> I am trying to use my home-theater amplifier for playing sound from laptop.
>>
>> What do I have:
>> 1). Linux (Fedora 8) box connected to amplifier using analog signal
>> (will be digital in future),
>> 2). Win$ XP SP3 laptop on which I want to play videos/dvds, BUT having
>> sound thru amplifier.
>> 3). Ethernet 100M connection between boxes.
>>    
>
> Nobody will want to support esound I'm afraid.
>
> Try using PulseAudio instead. There's some articles on the net:
> http://gleamynode.net/articles/2228/
>
>  

"However, the biggest problem with PulseAudio is that it doesn’t have a
descent client implementation for Windows."

Ok, I can set up PA on my Linux (not really want to, as PA is known to
cause problems).

Does anyone here know an Win$ programmer? I mean someone that could
write something like WinESD -> virtual audio card driver in "native"
(non Cygwin, etc) mode.

> You can probably also use PulseAudio on the Windows machine, and export
> the sound to your Linux machine:
> http://www.cendio.com/pulseaudio/
>
>  
"Also, the Win32 binary build <http://www.cendio.com/pulseaudio> didn’t
work for me, perhaps because it’s somewhat outdated and buggy."

WinESD at least "looks alive". I need to debug it on Linux side -> NO
debug output from esd.

W.P.
> Cheers
>
>  

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