Sound output across the network possibility

[Mike Wright]

Stewart Williams wrote:
> Sorry if this has been asked before, but I thought someone may know the 
> exact answer quickly.
> 
> Computer A = Fedora 8
> Computer B = Fedora 8
> 
> On Computer A I have headphones connected to my speaker jack and is 
> where I listen to my music. However, I store also music on Computer B 
> and have no speakers connected to the soundcard.
> 
> What I want to know is, is it possible to say double click on an mp3 
> file on Computer B and have it output the sound through my network to 
> the headphones connected on Computer A's soundcard?
> 
> And also (not essential) is this also possible if Computer A is running 
> Windows?

Have you looked into VideoLan?  [ http://www.videolan.org/ ]

 From their website:

    It is a free cross-platform media player
    It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need 
for additional codecs
    It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features 
(video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)

I'm a complete yutz wrt multimedia and Linux but VideoLan has given my 
desktop life.  Just for the heckuvit I've run multiple instances so I 
could listen to songs "in the round".

It runs very nicely on a 1G 512 white box.

Highly recommended.

Mike Wright :m)