Streaming from default audio output

[robot_army]

Is it possible to take a stream from the default output of my Mac and stream it to another device over my network?

I'm trying to implement a software airport, using a PC notebook connected to my sound system, and a macbook as the audio source. There really should be a way to accept the system's default audio output as an input to VLC, and use it's streaming capabilities to send it across the network.

Is there some package like Jack or Soundflower that can output audio to be piped into VLC via the command line? is there a /dev/audio in darwin somewhere? i'm totally stuck, and this really shouldn't be that hard considering how powerful VLC is
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thanks

[robot_army]

nothing?? at all??

damn... *buys more proprietary apple gear (airport express)*
*grumble*

[robot_army]

argh - didn't buy the airport express... if i'm going to have to hack it anyways, i might as well save the money...

Isn't there SOME way to do this?? i'd really like to make it work!

[Arite]

You can play/stream the sound card audio output (stereo mix) in VLC on Windows via DirectShow, however I do not know if there is an equivilant for OS X. Are you able to go to "File >> Open Capture Device..."?

Arite.

[robot_army]

No open capture device, but it can open an MRL. Is there a listing of the acceptable MRL formats somewhere? Is one of them maybe the solution? I've searched for a long, long time and haven't had any luck!

I can do the streaming with quicktime broadcast whatever, but the latency is like 1000 years... (8 seconds or so)

[Arite]

I don't think there is capture support in OS X yet - see here:
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=25603

Is there some package like Jack or Soundflower that can output audio to be piped into VLC via the command line? is there a /dev/audio in darwin somewhere? i'm totally stuck, and this really shouldn't be that hard considering how powerful VLC is
...

The only way in which I could see this working would if Jack or Soundflower could create a UDP/RTP or similar stream which VLC could playback, although there may be other methods.

Cheers, Arite.