Stream Live (playing) Audio / Video from XBMC

[vortexrotor]

I am not a Noob but this is kicking my "you know what"... Is there a way to stream what is playing (Audio or Video) on XBMC using VLC?

I am sure that it has been done but my searches have yielded nothing.

I have installed VLC on my XBMC box and I am using the following command to start a RTP stream but all I get is dead air...

cvlc -vvv alsa://default :alsa-adev=/dev/audio --sout '#transcode{acodec=mp3,ab=192,channels=2,samplerate=48000}:rtp{dst=224.1.1.224,port=1234,mux=ts}'

I get no errors so I am assuming that I am tapping into the incorrect audio device... any how to's / pointers would be helpful and greatly appreciated.