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I'd like to setup one of my systems as an audio server, so that I don't need to
buy some more sound cards. I just wrote a quick pair of programs. I made
/dev/dsp a named pipe, and just send all input across the network to the server
(via tcp), which writes it to the /dev/dsp on the server. This almost works,
beleive it or not :)

The problem is that I can't do a few nice things, like setting the sampling
rate. When I run xanim on the client, I get these messages:

Linux Audio: Error setting mono
Linux Audio: Error getting buf size
Linux_Audio: err setting freq 56ee

I then watch a movie that's playing about 4 times as fast as the sound :(
Does anyone have suggestions as to how I could fix this rather annoying
problem? Sun wants a couple hundred dollars for a 16-bit audio module for my
SS4, and I'd really preffer to use that money elsewhere

Thanks.

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Quote:>Does anyone have suggestions as to how I could fix this rather annoying
>problem? Sun wants a couple hundred dollars for a 16-bit audio module for my
>SS4, and I'd really preffer to use that money elsewhere

                                                                -Phil

: I'd like to setup one of my systems as an audio server, so that I don't need to
: buy some more sound cards. I just wrote a quick pair of programs. I made
: /dev/dsp a named pipe, and just send all input across the network to the server
: (via tcp), which writes it to the /dev/dsp on the server. This almost works,
: beleive it or not :)

Are you doing this for hack-value or do want the end-product?
mentioning Sun's solution makes me think you want the latter, in which case,
I ought mention the Network Audio System, which _seems_ to be what you want.
It runs on my Debian linux box, (so, no doubt, any linux box)
and I _think_ it's a cross platform thing (dunno).
It was a standard package in my install, so you ought be able to find
source at sunsite, or a binary if you have a linux box with some kind
of package manager.
I hope this is suitable for you, else : happy hacking!!

-Greg(mmmmmmm, networked portishead)

machine1:   socket 7000 >/dev/dsp
machine2:   cat /dev/dsp | socket machine1 7000

work already?

(don't have man socket here, so it's off the top of my head)

socket is in RHCont?/socket*.rpm and socket.deb somewhere I don't
know...

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