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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?

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.

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.

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.