[nas] Exporting audio output]

[David Richards]

If such a project ever started, I would hope they would allow NAS
clients in use to work with it.  Our thin clients have NAS from years
ago and can't be upgraded to anything new because NCDWare isn't being
developed anymore.

Unrelated, but the new Helix builds are getting much better at playing
over NAS.  BUT, if you play content that was built for 300K it consumes
so much network to the thin clients that the pulldown windows start to
become unresponsive. :D  But still kewl.  I'm also still working with
Neoware to get NAS built into their thin clients.  I'll keep everyone
posted.

Dave


On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 15:28 -0500, Paul Fox wrote:

>  > >>	You should use this lib on apps that do not grok NAS, but use
>  > >>direct OSS access instead.
>  > >
>  > 
>  > I prefer to use mplayer instead of xmms.
>  > I have tried running mplayer with the following option along with libaudiooss
>  >  $ mplayer foobar.avi -ao oss:/dev/dsp
>  > which tells it to use oss with the device /dev/dsp but it did not work.
>  > Anyway, I am looking for a generic solution which is not confined to a
>  > particular application.
> 
> i don't think you'll find one.  the choices are to use an app
> with NAS support built-in, or to use the audiooss pre-load trick. 
> there's no kernel-based sound driver which implements a NAS
> client-side (which would obviously be cool).
> 
> (i keep hearing rumors of alternate remote audio protocols (i.e.,
> reinventing NAS), but don't know any details, or whether the rumors
> represent anything more than vaporware.)
> 
> paul
> =---------------------
>  paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 34.3 degrees)