Well you could possibly use a media center distro such as dyne:bolic.
XMMS doesn't support samba shares, so you need to make a folder and then mount your windows shares to it. Here's an example:Proto said:In Windows I'm used to use my PC as an mp3/avi server, and play it's audio/video files through the LAN connection on my Lap's media player. However, it seems XMMS is not capable of doing this, meaning I have to copy a local version of the file before being able to play it.
Is there any way for XMMS or any other given Linux application to do this? (I am already able to see my PC's windows shared folders...)
$ mkdir /mnt/music
$ mount -t cifs //WinServer/Folder /mnt/music -o user=darkshin,password=lalilulelo
DarkShin said:XMMS doesn't support samba shares, so you need to make a folder and then mount your windows shares to it. Here's an example:
It should work on any distro.Code:$ mkdir /mnt/music $ mount -t cifs //WinServer/Folder /mnt/music -o user=darkshin,password=lalilulelo
If your share doesn't have a user name and password, just put something random.
Peace
Uhm, no. He wanted to play files locally from network shares on another machine. He did not want to play sound through another machine's eSound daemon.Frankablu said:For sound over network in linux you need Esound
Linux: http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/download.html
Windows: http://www.liquid-reality.de/main/projects/esound
In Xmms in the preferences select Esound as the output plugin then configure then use remote host.
export ESPEAKER=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX also works from the command line