[nas] Exporting audio output

[Jon Trulson]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:

> From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nick.ing-simmons at elixent.com>
> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:03:10 +0000
> Subject: Re: [nas] Exporting audio output
> To: jon at radscan.com
> Cc: Shardool <shardool at iiita.ac.in>, 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.

	Hmm.  Is that a hint to support native ALSA in nasd? ;-)


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