Redirecting Audio from PC to PC? 76
Atlantis-Rising asks: "I have two PCs in my standard setup- one is a 1U server (Running windows XP), and the other is a Windows XP Media Center PC. When I purchased the server, I didn't think I'd need a soundcard, and so I made no provisions for this when I was planning my system, and so it has no audio. After buying the server, my main desktop died and I decided to use the server as my main desktop machine, and I'd really like audio. However, my Media Center PC is hooked up to a wonderful speaker set, one that I'd not like to duplicate. I therefore wonder if anyone on Slashdot knows of a way to play the audio from one PC on another? I know about buying a USB sound-card, and I'd rather not do that. I also know that I can use RDP to connect the media center PC to the server, but I'd rather not do that either, for graphical performance reasons. Are there any other solutions out there, Slashdot?"
nc (Score:4, Informative)
Easy (Score:3, Informative)
Get the Windows Media Encoder - Free download (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9se
Video Lan Client of course (Score:4, Informative)
vac+shoutcast = streaming audio with no soundcard (Score:5, Informative)
It's one of those things (Score:4, Informative)
On Windows however, the sound drivers are discouraged from doing things like that. In fact, some applications will refuse to output sound if the driver isn't "approved" by Microsof, pretty much specifically to block this kind of setup.
Still, if someone was buy the DDK and write an unsigned virtual sound driver for windows, most applications out there would accept it for now (except for DRM-enabled things.)
wiring from line-out to line-in (Score:2, Informative)
if you patch it in through a mic jack, make sure you turn off the decibel boost on the mic jack or otherwise you'll get hideous distortion. if you're running it to the line-in, then go into the mixer and set line-in between half and three-quarter volume at first. then adjust the line-out on the slave machine up to it's highest and see where you're at.
in my case, i seldom use the server for full audio or video playback (but will occasionally), so i tend to leave the line-in closer to halfway because i mostly want to hear the sound events from the server, but have the option to use it to watch a movie while i play a game.
Re:Get the Windows Media Encoder - Free download (Score:2, Informative)
2000 MHz processor or higher, such as an AMD Athlon 64
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
512 MB of RAM or higher
Supported audio and video capture device
Pay special attention to the last line.
You can use VLC (Score:3, Informative)