ESound Client Implementation for MS Windows?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday May 28, 2002 @01:25PM from the multiple-inputs-one-output dept.

SplasPood asks: "I've been searching for the last couple years for a way to pipe the sound output from my windows laptop to my Linux mp3/sound box. Currently, I use esound to pipe the sound output from all my *nix boxen over the network to this mp3/sound box which is connected to my stereo. I'd love to be able to do the same for the windows laptop. I use the windows laptop to watch DVDs and movies, and it would be great if I could hear the sound via my stereo. Does anyone have any suggestions? And no, plugging the output of the windows box into the input on the sound card of the linux box is not an option."

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Re:Did you google? by SplasPood · 2002-05-28 18:21 · Score: 2, Interesting

I hadn't come across that specific page, but I checked it out. This WinESD sounded promising, but the link wasn't on the Esound page anymore. I did a google for that, and come up with a single hit for a page in some asian character set. Found a link in there for WinESD but the site appears to be down or gone.

I believe the cygwin port of esound will only work for cygwin based applications. IE, not everything. The ideal thing (I think) is some sort of shim into DirectSound (I believe, I don't do any windows programming) that pipes to esd. However, I don't think this could be done without violating some sort of OSS law and thus having bad mojo... Or something to that effect.