[nas] Exporting audio output]

[Jon Trulson]

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Shardool wrote:

> From: Shardool <shardool at iiita.ac.in>
> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:22:24 +0530 (IST)
> Subject: Re: [nas] Exporting audio output]
> To: nas at radscan.com
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> > Jon Trulson <jon at radscan.com> writes:
> >>>
> >>> I tried libaudiooss from the site you mentioned. It worked partially for
> >>> xmms but didnt't work for any other application (including mplayer).
> Any other suggestions?
> >>
> >>	There is a native NAS plugin for xmms at
> >>
> >>	ftp://ftp.stack.nl/pub/users/willem/
> >>
> >>	I use it all the time.  In general, it will be better to use the
> >>native application's NAS support, if available.  libaudiooss is an
> LD_PRELOAD library that intercepts accesses to /dev/{mixer,audio,dsp}
> and converts them into NAS protocol requests.
> >
> > Linux apps are moving away from OSS to ALSA (or even JACK).
> >
> > If the app doesn't use /dev/dsp but /dev/snd/...
> > then libaudiooss can't catch it.
> >
> >
> >>
> >>	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.

	Mplayer also has native NAS support - try 'mplayer -ao nas ...' if
your mplayer was built with NAS support...

> 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.
>

	As Paul mentioned, you are unlikely to find one that works with
everything.  KDE uses artsd, gnome uses esd (for which you can get NAS
support in theory).

> Regards,
> Shardool.
>
>

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