[ILUG] reflecting an audio stream?

[David Golden]

On Friday 06 July 2007, Seán O Sullivan wrote:
> Very easy to do with vlc at least.
> Probably easiest to use graphical interface to do what you want, and
> once figure out how you want to do it, you could switch to cli
> easily.
>
>
Indeed, vlc can likely do this quite well. 

To offer an alternative solution that gives endless opportunity for 
wasting time fiddling about with stuff, er, I  mean it's very 
versatile:

1. Have an icecast-server to service clients.

2. Have JACK (magic local-machine-inter-process
stream plumbing thingy for linux, rapidly becoming a 
de-facto standard)

3. Have a jack-enabled darkice (or similar) to upload
whatever jack sends to the icecast server

4. Have a jack-enabled mplayer (or whatever) to send
what you want via jack to darkice and then to 
the icecast server and then to the clients...

http://www.icecast.org/
http://jackaudio.org/
http://darkice.tyrell.hu/

Linux is actually getting quite big in the audio world, and there
are whole audio/multimedia oriented linux distros (e.g. dynebolic) and 
there is support for some serious computer audio hardware in ALSA.