Zaurus Vnc With Audio?, Is this possible? Options

[totaln00b]

Hi All,

I am trying to use my zaurus to remotely control my pc over a wifi network, with the aim of being able to listen to streaming radio through it. Now I gather that there's no zaurus version of real-player yet, but I was hoping I could use a vnc client to control firefox on my pc and listen to the audio through that. I can certainly connect to the pc using teakettle/keypebble, but I don't get any sound.

A search on the internet as to whether vnc supports sound got me very confused as I got totally conflicting answers, so basically is this possible with the zaurus?

If not, does anyone have any idea how to connect to sites like the BBC using an internet radio player like zradio, or using kino2?

Many thanks

Jo

[speculatrix]

hmmm, this question is SO common, it really needs a sticky posting.

yes, it is possible to view another computer's desktop (or even another zaurus when it runs vncserver), but vnc alone won't do sound, unlike say using rdesktop with remote sound between windows client and server.

run shoutcast on the windows box to stream audio... winamp will do this with the shoutcast plugin. here's an article I wrote on the subject:
http://www.speculatrix.f2s.com/normsoft/wi...-streaming.html

you can then listen to the stream with kino.

to listen to internet radio, you will need to analyse the stream name - view the source of the web page and look for mms://blablahblah/radiostream or similar. Then open the URL in mplayer - sometimes there will be a .pls which is a playlist and THAT will contain the mms stream name. On the www.shout

I'll see if I can find an example file. kino/mplayer will cope with a variety of formats.

Note that some commercial radio stations hide the stream quite deep in nested pages, so that you have to go through their front end and thus see all the adverts and even listen to their advertising streams.

[totaln00b]

Thanks,

A pinned post or howto would be useful- sorry I hit upon a common question, but a search for vnc and audio, or vnc and sound didn't bring up any hits on the forum!

I couldn't get qtrdesktop to work- with the WinXP machine primed and ready to accept remote connections qtrdesktop would open up the initial screen for putting in the connection details and then when I clicked OK would just close. If I open it from the command line I simply get fed straight to the same screen and the same thing happens, with no explanation as to why...

I will give the shoutcast method a go though! Many thanks for that.

Jo

[zeigerpuppy]

There is a VNC Audio extension,
has anyone tried it?

http://linux-workshop.com/bybell/vnc/vncaudio.html

Also, remember that if you use VNC, it's a good idea to tunnel it over SSH:

VNCServer: start server to accept local connections (ie: on port 22)

VNCClient: ssh user@server -L 5900/127.0.0.1/5900
enter password
Then, in another shell, start vncviewer and
connect to: 127.0.0.1:5900

What happens

VNCClient --> 127.0.0.1:5900 --> 22 (SSH) --> internet/LAN --> 22 (SSH) --> VNCServer

[Da_Blitz]

if you just want to listen to internet radio may i recomend looking into mplayer or vlc, vlc would be your best bet but mplayer has support for alot of network viewing stuff and it wouldnt suprise me if it supported streaming radio

[speculatrix]

hermocom have built a shoutcast browser/player - need to install Ruby and RubyQT for it though and it's pretty big.