Re: [SLE] Weird idea: export AUDIO ...
Martin Mielke
I've been administering UNIX systems for years now but I've never found something like (for tcsh) 'setenv AUDIO remotehost' (without the quotes). The underlying idea was to play a CD on a remote CDROM drive and hear it on another machine... weird, eh?! :-)
You are by far not the only one who had this idea ;-) However, it won't work. All you do is to set the value of the environment variable AUDIO, but this has no effect unless a program uses this variable. With DISPLAY this works because X applications evaluate the environment variable DISPLAY to determine the X server to connect to. But while we have X graphics, there is no equivalent for audio. To work with something like `export AUDIO=remotehost` you would need a protocol for remote audio playback, a server on the remote host and client applications that respect the variable AUDIO. I don't know of such a solution, but may be someone implemented something like this. Otherwise might be a more viable aproach to build scripts that read the audio data from the CD and pass them through a ssh/rsh connection to a player on the remote host, although that would be far from perfect. Eilert -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eilert Brinkmann -- Universitaet Bremen -- FB 3, Informatik eilert@informatik.uni-bremen.de - eilert@tzi.org - eilert@linuxfreak.com http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~eilert/ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Martin Mielke
wrote: I've been administering UNIX systems for years now but I've never found something like (for tcsh) 'setenv AUDIO remotehost' (without the quotes). The underlying idea was to play a CD on a remote CDROM drive and hear it on another machine... weird, eh?! :-)
Sun and HP workstations have remote audio capabilities. I believe ESD (Enlightenment Sound Daemon?) (I think is the esound package in SuSE) is capable of doing the same thing, although I haven't tried it. I don't know about CD playing, though, since the ouput of a cdrom is cabled directly to the sound card, so there may not be any processing, just amplification. -- Rafael Herrera Laboratory for Computational Neuroscience University of Pittsburgh http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~raffo -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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