Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:26:40 +0800 From: Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a good solution share the speaker? Message-ID: <40401880.2060204@realss.com> In-Reply-To: <20040228035350.GD3471@dan.emsphone.com> References: <LAW11-F11pfmwX19amh0002c2a0@hotmail.com> <20040228035350.GD3471@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: >In the last episode (Feb 28), Zhang Weiwu said: > > >>Several people are using notebooks in the office, the big desktop >>computer stores music. A good speaker is pluged into the desktop >>computer (FreeBSD). >> >>What do you think is the best solution to share the speaker? >> >>These are what I can think of: >>* Marc Lehmann wrote a perl module for playing music with mpg123. Write a >>cgi script and let people select playlist/control play on the webpage. >>* Find a existing good mpg123 frontend, modify it, let it control the >>mpg123 on another computer through ssh or even let inetd bring up the >>mpg123 player and let the fontend talk to a socket. >> >> > >http://www-scf.usc.edu/~bozhang/notes/esd.html describes how to use >esound (which the mpg123 port is built with) to send audio to a remote >machine. You could also use xmms, since it has esd support too. I > > That's a good idea. I am worrying that uncompressed sound takes lots of bandwidth, some people in the office are using (average) 500Kbps bluetooth link, uncompressed CD audio is 16*2*44100=1400Kbps, can esound manipulate it?
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