> > > i want to watch dvd's on one box and hear the sound out the soundcard on > > > another. shouldn't that be simple? > > > >> Looks like pulse audio can do this. I found this rather old article, >> but it can be a start: >> >> http://razor.occams.info/blog/2009/02/11/pulseaudio-sound-forwarding-across-a-network/ >> > > yay! thank you sunny > this has been working nicely for these 3 months, with sound forwarding from nearly any app, however just recently i no longer get sound from firefox or arora or chromium or vlc or audacity, yet sound is still forwarding just fine from mplayer and audacious. all sound still ought to forward due to env var PULSE_SERVER. ~/.pulse{,-cookie} are removed. perhaps for whatever reason some apps are now hooking into the dead local mobosound anyway? which got me suspicious, is the mobosound really dead? so i booted the lucid liveCD (still installed on harddisc by unetbootin). how about that, the liveCD is able to drive the mobosound just fine! well, so, i decided to install maverick. and guess what? both bash mplayer and gnome mplayer are mute, but meanwhile, lxde is happily clucking its silly sounds. can anyone give me some direction where to look next? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110117/b4626655/attachment.htm