play-sound-over-the-network/

Jeremy MountainJohnson
jeremy.mountainjohnson at gmail.com


On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 11:51:17AM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> > > i want to watch dvd's on one box and hear the sound out the soundcard=
 on
> > > another. =C2=A0shouldn't that be simple?
> >
> > To me that sounds very difficult and I'm not sure why it seems simple.
> > How does a player redirect sound to another machine and maintain near
> > perfect synchronization with the video?
>
> How does the player send the video to the video card and the sound to
> the sound card and makes sure both reach our senses nearly
> simultaneously?
>
> What difference does it make if they are on the same machine or on the
> network?
>
> [Yes, I know the extra latency and the packet loss, but on a local
> network they should not pose much of a problem.]
>
> Cheers,
> florin
>
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