'Twas brillig, and Metyl Methylius at 11/01/11 14:51 did gyre and gimble:
Hello everyone,
I was wondering if its possible to just create a "virtual" sound card using alsa which will just sent its audio stream to other computer (using TCP/IP or UDP for example). On the other end there would be some kind of server (or just nc -u -l -p 31337 | aplay ). I want to do it on alsa layer because other aps using alsa will get immediate support.
It should be something like described in
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Network
but with transparent support for all alsa based applications. I dont care about syncronization or transmission delay. Any pointers as how this could be done in alsa ?
Any particular reason you cannot use PulseAudio? It support usage from existing ALSA apps and also works automatically with SSH by piggy-backing connection settings on X11 root windows which are accessable when the remote connection has X11 forwarding enabled.
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