Remote Sound

Fri Oct 1 13:44:00 2004

Vironique,

I needed to do something similar for a project. I explored this for months
and found a few S/W solutions but nothing easy. My solution was to buy a
Barix Instreamer. The Instreamer takes audio in and streams MP3 out over
Ethernet. I connected it to the audio out of the sound card. You then have a
two step process on the client side. You launch something like Winamp (or
whatever MP3 stream player works on your OS) and connect to the MP3 stream
from the Barix box. Then you launch your VNC viewer. You just have to expect
there to be some latency between your mouse events and the audio. That was
OK for my application.

The Instreamer can be found at:
http://www.barix.com/en/datasheets/Product%20Sheet%20Instreamer%20V13.pdf

It costs about $300. I was buying this for work so it was cheaper to buy a
few of these than pay a programmer to make the S/W solutions work for my
Solaris 2.6 servers. Someone smarter than I could probably incorporate a
streaming audio player into the VNC viewer. I'd pay $$ for that.

If that's too rich for you and you like to tinker look at
http://www.icecast.org/. This solution would use your server as the streamer
instead of external H/W but the concept is the same: Two separate
applications, VNC for Keyboard, Mouse & Video, streaming MP3 for the audio.

Matt

Matthew Klabnik

Sr Member of the Technical Staff

Applied Signal Technology

133 National Business Parkway, Suite 100

Annapolis Junction, MD 20701

301-497-7138

301-497-7135 FAX

>Message: 17

>From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?V=E9ronique_Lattes?= <veronique.lattes "at" ceciaa.com>

>To: <vnc-list "at" realvnc.com>

>Subject: "remote sound"

>Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:33:25 +0200

> 

>Hi,

> 

>I would like to know if it is possible to ear on a VNC wiever the sounds
displayed on the remote machine?

>Is such a feature directly implemented in VNC or should we use another
software to achieve it?

> 

>(On which OS does this apply?)

> 

>- The objective of this question is to test accessibilty for blind persons
-

> 

>Thanks for your help!

> 

>Vironique