[102196] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Playing Audio Cd's remotely
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Burke)
Tue Dec 1 20:46:39 1998
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 20:47:10 -0500
From: Tom Burke <tomii@erols.com>
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The Solaris box is probably a SUN box. If it's a newer one, it has a sound
card built in.
jeff vier wrote:
> ---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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