Hi,

This might be an interesting problem.

I have a nice Windows laptop, a P-166 Linux system, an a wireless router.

I would like to stream all my audio of my laptop (music, system sound,
etc.) to the Linux system, which has a decent sound card connected to
nice speakers.

The reason for doing so is that I can move from places to places in my
room with my laptop but can still listen to the music from the nice
speakers. Now, I know 2 ways of doing is to set up a MP3 stream server
on my laptop and "tune" my Linux box to listen to the server. However, I
feel that it is an overkill: I have to spend CPU time encoding/deconding
MP3 stream within a private 100Mbits network.

Does anyone know of a better way of doing this?

BL

PS I know I can buy a wireless audio server, but I'm not rich enough.

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 05:29:43 -0700, Bayo Lau
wrote:

Hi,

This might be an interesting problem.

I have a nice Windows laptop, a P-166 Linux system, an a wireless router.

I would like to stream all my audio of my laptop (music, system sound,
etc.) to the Linux system, which has a decent sound card connected to
nice speakers.

The reason for doing so is that I can move from places to places in my
room with my laptop but can still listen to the music from the nice
speakers. Now, I know 2 ways of doing is to set up a MP3 stream server
on my laptop and "tune" my Linux box to listen to the server. However, I
feel that it is an overkill: I have to spend CPU time encoding/deconding
MP3 stream within a private 100Mbits network.

Does anyone know of a better way of doing this?

BL

PS I know I can buy a wireless audio server, but I'm not rich enough.

Just buy yourself an 802.11 wireless network from your local computer
store, and let that make the connection for you.

d
Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com