Re: Sound over X
Marvellous!
I've always been somewhat daunted by the mplayer manual, so this piece of
enlightenment is truly well received.
I have to ask, though, how do I get SDL games to use this ESD server too?
Many thanks,
TreeBoy
On Thursday 09 Jun 2005 15:18, Cam wrote:
> Thanks!... i've been working w/ for the same thing but failed (i was
> also trying NAS). Anyway, i used to use esddsp a long time ago, but
> i've kind of forgotten the in's and outs... if you use mplayer though,
> that has an esd output plugin. (or, AFAIK, anything written in SDL can
> use esd, so basically any game should be cool).
>
> Cameron Matheson
>
> On 6/9/05, TreeBoy <debian-user@petethetree.co.uk> wrote:
> > Having failed with NAS, here is what I have done with esound.
> >
> > esound was already installed (part of Gnome) on both the laptop and the
> > desktop.
> >
> > First I have to configure the server on the laptop:
> >
> > I've changed the file /etc/esd.conf to show:
> >
> > [esd]
> > auto_spawn=1
> > spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 5
> > spawn_wait_ms=100
> > # default options are used in spawned and non-spawned mode
> > default_options=-public -tcp -promiscuous
> >
> > The important bits here are the first and last lines.
> >
> > After this is done you start esd in the background by using:
> >
> > esd &
> >
> >
> > I then installed esound-clients on the laptop and did:
> >
> > esdplay test.wav
> >
> > Got nothing!
> >
> > Ran alsamixer and unmuted, tried again: SUCCESS!
> >
> > So, I installed esound-clients on the desktop, ran the following command:
> >
> > esdplay -s laptop test.wav
> >
> > SUCCESS!
> >
> >
> > Then I configured xmms on the desktop to use the eSound output and
> > specified the hostname of my laptop as the destination.
> >
> > SUCCESS!!!
> >
> > I haven't yet found how to use esddsp, which I believe I need to use xine
> > or whatever. I just get no noise at all and no error message - dagnabbit!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Peter
> >
> > On Sunday 29 May 2005 20:06, TreeBoy wrote:
> > > Hi, again.
> > >
> > > Managed to get it working (sort of!).
> > >
> > > I have a desktop machine that sits in another room because the
> > > flashing lights and the noisy fans would not be allowed into the living
> > > room.
> > >
> > > I have a laptop that I use all the time connected to the desktop. I run
> > > X on the desktop and view it's contents on the laptop with the
> > > following command;
> > >
> > > X -query desktop :1
> > >
> > > I am not able to get to log in remotely using kdm.
> > >
> > > First of all, I had to install nas (the server package) on the laptop.
> > >
> > > Then I installed nas-bin (the client utils) on the desktop.
> > >
> > > I then had to change the /etc/default/nas file on the laptop to have
> > > the "-aa" option to allow unauthenticated connections.
> > >
> > > I was then able to run
> > >
> > > auinfo
> > >
> > > on the laptop's konsole and it said everything was fine.
> > >
> > > I was also able to execute the following on a remote konsole on the
> > > desktop (i.e. sat at the laptop in KDE on the desktop):
> > >
> > > auinfo -audio tcp/laptop:8000
> > >
> > > and get the results I needed.
> > >
> > > When I then execute:
> > >
> > > audial -audio tcp/laptop:8000 -volume 50 0123
> > >
> > > and get the tones come out of the laptop!!!
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, when I then tell KDE to use the NAS, I get segfaults -
> > > so it does not work.
> > >
> > > Next I'm going to look at ESD and then aRTS if that fails.
> > >
> > > Will let you know.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > TreeBoy
> > >
> > > On Thursday 26 May 2005 00:46, Marty wrote:
> > > > TreeBoy wrote:
> > > > > Do you mean NAS (Network Audio System) which is available on Debian
> > > > > now.
> > > >
> > > > That seems to be something else. The slashdot discussion is about
> > > > X.org's MAS (media application server), and the posting links to this
> > > > web site:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net/
> > > >
> > > > Since this is an X.org project, I suspect we have to wait until
> > > > Debian completes the transition from XFree86 to X.org.
> > > >
> > > > > I'm intending to try and sort this out for myself this very
> > > > > weekend.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'll post if you're interested.
> > > >
> > > > I would be interested. Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > TreeBoy
> >
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