FW: [wplug] xmms/mp3 help

[Coutch, Robert]

I've got this working with Linux machine to Linux machine via SSH and
telnet.
Maybe it's something with the client software for Windows.

You could use mpg123 to play the songs from a console window.

You could also look in tusing VNC for your remote control.

I know SSH offers X11 forwarding, but I'm not aware of any sound forwarding.

Hmmmmmmmmm


Hopes this helps,

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: R.E.Coutch [mailto:coutchre at usaor.net]
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 10:33 PM
To: coutchre at tvratings.com
Subject: [wplug] xmms/mp3 help


Dear all,
  I have a little pet project going and would like some help.  I have my
wife's old laptop and want to convert it into a hard disk audio player.
Okay, no problem.  I have installed linux (RH7.3) on the machine and tweaked
the system to get the pcmcia ethernet card as well as the sound working.
Now it is hooked up to my audio system.  If I boot up xmms on the laptop
(now known as remote) and start playing mp3 files, life is good and it would
appear I have met with success.  However, I want to be able to control the
laptop from my desktop via my home network.  My desktop (now known as local)
has a dual boot with RH and XP.  So I boot up the local into XP and get my
hand-dandy Xwin32 to connect to the remote machine via ssh.  Connection goes
fine and when I launch xmms, the window appears.  However, when I try to
play an mp3 file, I get an error saying the sound card is not configured
properly.  After some detective work, it would appear as though the remote
machine is trying!
 to play the mp3 file on the local machine.  Is there a work-around that ne1
could think of (perhaps using telnet and just forwarding the display?).

Thanks in Advance,
Nik
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