[102100] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Playing Audio Cd's remotely
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jeff vier)
Tue Dec 1 11:43:21 1998
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 08:45:21 -0800 (PST)
From: jeff vier <boinger666@yahoo.com>
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---Richard Harvey Chapman <hchapman@force.stwing.upenn.edu> wrote:
> > I want to know if there is a way to play an audio cd mounted on
linux
> > on a Solaris box ?
> > I don't have sound card on linux but have inbuilt speakers on
solaris box.
> > Is it possible to do this?
>
> Not with any standard programs. The way it normally works is you
cd-rom
> plays the cd and the sound goes directly to the sound card via that
cable
> between them.
>
> So, if you wanted to play a mounted CD remotely, you'd have to get a
new
> type of player that would read the mounted CD like a file and then
play it
> something like an mp3. The other alternative is to use the copy of
> pnserver that came for free on the RedHat 5.0 CD. It's simple to
setup.
> Set it up to serve your cd-rom. Then, use real audio on your other
> computer (w/ speakers) to listen.
wait - you can't listen to realaudio without a sound card! what are
you attaching the speakers to?
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