6 Jun
2006
6 Jun
'06
12:32 a.m.
On Mon Jun 05, 2006 at 08:07:17PM -0500, Brian Dunn wrote:
Hi fellas.
I need some suggestions as to the best way to play audio from a dvd in my laptop on my
desktop ( which is connected to my serious stereo ).
the goal here is to be able to sit back on my couch and watch a movie on the laptop, but
with my jawesome stereo for sound rather than the
pipsqueak built in speakers.
The network is 802.11b, which i'm thinking won't have the bandwidth to handle
netjack. Should I set up an mp3 or ogg vorbis stream server on my
laptop that i can then tune in on the desktop? if so, how do i handle syncronizing the
sound on the desktop with the image on the laptop?
2 ideas come to mind. they both involve mplayer..
- start playback on both at once, with a pair of xterms, a python script, ssh, whatever.
one with -noaudio and one with -novideo
- on the video machine, run jackd, ices-jack (in the 'kh' branch of their SVN
last i checked), and mplayer -ao jack (set mplayer to autoconnect to ices, with
jack.plumbing or qjackctl). on the server, run icecast, and mplayer
http://localhost:8000/.ogg. the audio delay should be fairly consistent so you can fix it
with either an audio predelay or a video delay argument to mplayer..
might also want to check out NMM, its designed for this purpose. i just tend to find these
other progs never play nearly as much stuff as mplayer..
I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of cool ideas you all may have.
Brian