piping audio to another machine?

[Dawes, Stephen]

Has anyone checked out or played with 
"VideoLAN - Free Software and Open Source video streaming solution for every OS!"

It can be found at:
http://www.videolan.org/

This sounds like quite an interesting project, and additionally, it may solve the original question of this thread. I have not played with it yet, but I do have it on the list of things to do.

Your thoughts and feedback welcome.


>----- Here is an excerpt from their homepage <-----

Free Software and Open Source video streaming solution for every OS!

The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-plaform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux...

VideoLAN is free software, and is released under the GNU General Public License. It started as a student project at the French École Centrale Paris but is now a worldwide project with developers from 20 countries.

More information about the VideoLAN streaming solution be found in the streaming section.

For setup instructions, see the documentation section. If you have a problem that is not covered in the documentation, look at the support section to know about the web forums, the user mailing-lists and the IRC channels users and developers usually hook on.

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Steve Dawes
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