Re: [9fans] audio redirection in linux

[Gorka guardiola <paurea@gmail.com>]

I used esd for that kind of thing some time ago.
You can use it to dial some server on another machine and then
serve a file. I think I would run esd to serve it to the net and esdcat
to dial and serve a pipe, but it was looooong ago, so I am not sure.

On 7/21/05, Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is only on-topic insofar as I was reminded of
> it by watching Nemo's Plan B video.  And it would
> be nice to have in Plan 9 from User Space.
> 
> I want to do the equivalent of "bind something /dev/audio".
> There just has to be a way to do this on Linux (I'm
> also vaguely interested in other Unixes).  I found a
> program called vsound that purports to do this but
> does so via an LD_PRELOAD library that replaces
> open and ioctl and picks off access to /dev/dsp.
> This isn't what I had in mind.
> 
> Anyone know of real loopback audio devices for
> Linux or any other Unix-like system?
> 
> Russ
> 


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