On Jo, 13 sep 12, 00:49:03, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 09:36:08AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > I have experimented with pulseaudio to reroute audio to a different 
> > machine via the network, but the setup seemed too complicated and 
> > fragile for me so I just use the laptop's speakers for the occasional 
> > youtube video or so.
> 
> mpd and mpc no good? I see mpd only suggests pulseaudio.

$ hostname -f
think.nuvreauspam
$ echo $MPD_HOST
rpi.nuvreauspam
$ mpc
Radio Guerrilla - La Unica Radio Con Cojones: MUSE - Madness
[playing] #1/2   0:25/0:00 (0%)
volume:100%   repeat: on    random: off   single: off   consume: off
 
> Disclaimer: I haven't personally tried mpd over a network, but I will
> eventually be looking at it. 
 
IMNSHO mpd is the best solution for running a multimedia server 
controlled over the network. However, it doesn't help for the occasional 
youtube video. XMBC might (it has a youtube plugin), with the added 
benefit of using my big screen 1080p TV for the video part ;)

> There is also rplay-server and rplay-client, but again, see the
> Disclaimer.

Doesn't look interesting to me.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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