[linux-audio-dev] wireless audio

[Joachim Schiele]

On Friday 15 July 2005 15:42, mimo wrote:
hey,

create an access point and put alsa+MuSE on it which should do the job for 
wlan.

greets
/me

> I'm just doing some research as I noticed an infrared audio
> transmitter/receiver the other day in the comet store.
> What are the options for doing wireless audio output (e.g. hooking up a
> laptop with a stereo a couple of meters away), if any, and if then under
> linux? In theory I could think of:
> - bluetooth (apparently quite slow, so maybe not good for ~cd quality)
> - wlan: using an existing wlan card and somehow receiving audio data, then
> transforming to analog - are there devices that do this, how would this
> work with wlan at the same time?
> - infrared: no idea, guess the builtin infrared on laptops is to weak to
> get any further than half a meter
>
> Any ideas or advice appreciated
>
> mimo