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 > > -- > Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >