#48 Remote audio capability (VNC Audio)

[Dan Willett]

Add the remote audio capability provided by VNC Audio (
http://linux-workshop.com/bybell/vnc/vncaudio.html )
and then extend that to the viewers for all operating
systems and then possibly the servers if possible.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Is is possible to use the esd sound server for this purpose?

I figure if I can find a windows client and plug it into the output
from the esd server it would do what I basically need...

[John Wells]

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That would be a nice feature.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Im trying to find a way to forward the sound, right now
when I try to use XMMS it fails unless I'm root, and if I'm
root it plays on the server's speakers.

Adding sound forwarding would make this great program
even better.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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remote desktop has audio forwarding capabilities so this feature has been done (meaning it is possible)

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Yes, I agree. That feature would be greatly appreciated!

[David Lee Lambert]

This would be great. Actually, however, there are several parts needed:

• Wire transport for the protocol. This could be any of several different encodings as packets inside the VNC stream, or (where there is sufficient visibility between them) a parallel stream of UDP packets.
• Local playback in the client.
• Virtual driver(s) for the server. On Linux this might be as simple as setting an environment-variable for some programs, for others it would require redirecting a device or intercepting library calls.

[Badda]

This feature would still be highly appreciated. RealVNC already supports audio, alas via proprietary protocol extensions. But standard protocol supports audio as well (https://github.com/rfbproto/rfbproto/blob/master/rfbproto.rst#qemu-audio-client-message).
Unfortunately, the standard protocol is limited to uncompressed audio. Maybe this would be a great opportunity for a protocol enhancement request?