Sound forwarding on a ssh connection

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Sound forwarding on a ssh connection

Postby Graaf_van_Vlaanderen » 26 Jan 2010 14:04

Currently I use VLC on my local desktop (Fedora).
VLC also runs through ssh on a server (FreeBSD), except sound.
How can 'forward' sound from the server to the desktop?

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Re: Sound forwarding on a ssh connection

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 26 Jan 2010 17:35

That's more of a question for your SSH implementor than VLC. That said, first I suspect it's not supported by your SSH client/server. Second, forwarding VLC audio and video through SSH is a pretty terrible idea in general. Raw audio, but most importantly raw video requires an humonguous bandwidth.
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Re: Sound forwarding on a ssh connection

Postby Graaf_van_Vlaanderen » 26 Jan 2010 17:55

It's in fact only to play audio, although video forwarding works fine. It's indeed bandwidth killing, but that's not so a problem since I'm using dual gigabit lacp NICs with a managed gigabit switch.
Currently, I play the music from my desktop with the server working as a nfs file server. Currently 'ssh' cannot forward sound by default. Perhaps vlc can route sound over an ssh connection to
the other machine.

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Re: Sound forwarding on a ssh connection

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 26 Jan 2010 21:41

I am fairly certain that SSH does not support audio forwarding, at least OpenSSH makes no mention of that. VLC can't do it if SSH won't do it.
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