[linux-audio-user] Dirty hack: netmounting /dev/dsp

[Robin Gareus]

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Markus Herhoffer wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I wanted to know if it was possible to mount the /dev/dsp of my pc via
> netmount on another system. So I tried it out - and it worked. If I do
> 
> # cat /dev/urandom > /mnt/net/pc_2/dev/dsp
> 
> the soundcard on the remote pc produces a white noise. But I could not
> figure out how to play wav/pcm files through this dirty "Streaming API".
> Any ideas? Piping the stdout of mplayer doesn't work.

Did you try to pipe it thu sox(1). mplayer just can't guess the device
format correctly. AFAIR /dev/dsp defaults to 8bit 8kHz mono

Maybe you are looking for rplay-server / rplay-client or a wireless
headphone, but netmount is surely more fun.

cheers,
robin
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