Re: How to get sound on remote X kde client

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 04/28/04

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    Date: 28 Apr 2004 16:44:14 GMT

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    On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:20:16 +0200, Robert Rozman staggered into the
    Black Sun and said:
    > I've managed to get some sort of thin client, but still have some
    > problems. I've enabled XDMCP on my server, and run this on my
    > diskless epia client: "X -query ip_of_server"
    >
    > How can I get sound from server's desktop to my epia thin client ?

    You need to use a network sound daemon. The only one that I know of
    that had support in mplayer is ESD. You'll have to run ESD on both the
    main machine and the X terminal, and you'll have to put various
    configuration parameters into both instances of esd. I don't know
    precisely what to do here since I've never wanted or needed to do this.

    > export DISPLAY=ip_of_epia:0.0
    > but if I run mplayer I get black screen and audio is heard on main
    > server.

    mplayer is trying to use the Xv extension, which only works for local
    displays. You need to feed mplayer -vo x11 and -ao esd . You also need
    to think again about playing full motion video on an X terminal; that'll
    consume a *lot* of bandwidth and processor power. Maybe it'll work, but
    I wouldn't bet on it. See if you can run mplayer locally; that'll save
    you a lot of hassle. 

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