I have a nice Windows laptop, a P-166 Linux system, an a wireless router.
I would like to stream all my audio of my laptop (music, system sound,
etc.) to the Linux system, which has a decent sound card connected to
nice speakers.
The reason for doing so is that I can move from places to places in my
room with my laptop but can still listen to the music from the nice
speakers. Now, I know 2 ways of doing is to set up a MP3 stream server
on my laptop and "tune" my Linux box to listen to the server. However, I
feel that it is an overkill: I have to spend CPU time encoding/deconding
MP3 stream within a private 100Mbits network.
Does anyone know of a better way of doing this?
BL
PS I know I can buy a wireless audio server, but I'm not rich enough.
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 05:29:43 -0700, Bayo Lau <bayo@interchange.ubc.ca>
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>This might be an interesting problem.
>
>I have a nice Windows laptop, a P-166 Linux system, an a wireless router.
>
>I would like to stream all my audio of my laptop (music, system sound,
>etc.) to the Linux system, which has a decent sound card connected to
>nice speakers.
>
>The reason for doing so is that I can move from places to places in my
>room with my laptop but can still listen to the music from the nice
>speakers. Now, I know 2 ways of doing is to set up a MP3 stream server
>on my laptop and "tune" my Linux box to listen to the server. However, I
>feel that it is an overkill: I have to spend CPU time encoding/deconding
>MP3 stream within a private 100Mbits network.
>
>Does anyone know of a better way of doing this?
>
>BL
>
>PS I know I can buy a wireless audio server, but I'm not rich enough.
Just buy yourself an 802.11 wireless network from your local computer
store, and let that make the connection for you.
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