Hello, All!!
I recently posed a similar question to the CS dept. UNIX staff. I wanted
to play Xboing with sound on a machine that didn't have any way of getting
it installed any time soon, so I just piped the display over from a CS
machine. Piping displays is easy enough; surely, one might reason, it's
similarly easy to pipe sounds, right? Not so. Unfortunately, neither the
mighty helix nor I was able to find a viable solution, so I play without
sound. :(
However, I'd bet that a viable workaround for your situation might
be lurking around somewhere out there. Have you considered, given the
ever-decreasing prices of hardware these days, to find someone with an old
p60 or p75 board he'd like to get rid of? There must be some out there
somewhere... Failing a software solution, you might want to think about
this.
Sorry I wasn't much help. If you find out a way to do this; by all means,
please post it to the list.
Zoicks!!
Robbo
> Here's a question for the hardware-impared out there...
>
> Does anyone know of a good way to play a sound stream on a machine
> across some ether on my desktop? My motives are quite simple.
> This 486-66 doesn't have quite the oomph required to play mpeg
> audio, but the p-166 in the next apatment over does.
>
> My first guess was to try something like
>
> rsh ursamajor mpg123 -s *mp3 | play -c 2 -r 44100 -t sw -
>
> where play is a front-end to sox... However this results in
> lots of glitches and pauses in the sound. In fact, even playing
> a large local file with this play command seems to generate
> the occasional hiccup. I tried various versions of buffering
> in the middle, but still no go.
>
> I want to know if anyone has done this before, and if so how?
>
> Matt
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