Re: [LAU] Sending audio to another computer

From: david <gnome@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun May 23 2010 - 00:01:27 EEST

Brett McCoy wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Grant <emailgrant@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>>>> There's a few ways, but AFAIK they depend on a local network being
>>>> available.
>>> Well, you could put an extra nic in each computer and use netjack over that
>>> while keeping the traffic off of the normal local network.
>> That would require setting one of the systems up as a router right?
>> If so, that's what I'll do, but I want to be sure there isn't a
>> simpler way.
>
> If you don't want to use networking, you can have an inexpensive card
> like M-Audio 2496 send SPDIF to the other machine for playback. Evn
> some cheaper builtin sound cards now come with SPDIF output... I have
> a HP machine I bought for cheap on eBay and it has a built-in SPDIF
> output, and I send that to my Linux box which has the good soundcard
> (RME) and big monitors.

My Behringer UCA202 USB soundcard has SPDIF output. The card cost about $20.

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David
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