ESound for Windows

How to use ESound to transmit Sound from your linux machine to your windows desktop.

My desktop computer runs Windows 2000. I run Linux with X11 on a second system and use vnc to access it.

The problem was for quite some time that I was not able to use sound from the linux machine. The solution was Esound.
The cygwin developers ported esound to windows. The nice thing is that you can use the binaries from cygwin without the complete cygwin installation. I have packaged a mini esound distribution that runs on it´s own:

Download esound.zip  (compiled from cygwin esound 0.2.29)

On the windows machine you start:
esd.exe -tcp -public
(btw. don´t do this with a machine connected to the internet

On the linux machine you add the following line to your .bashrc:
export ESPEAKER=<ip>:16001
Where <ip> is the ip address of your client.

If you now use e.g. xmms on the linux machine you should hear the sound on the windows machine.

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  1. Sep 27, 2008

    Anonymous says:

    thanks for the esound on windows guide! it was exactly what i was looking fo...

    thanks for the esound on windows guide! it was exactly what i was looking for! i use it to send sound to a windows machine which encodes it (the encoder only runs on win) and sends it back to the linux one.


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  2. Sep 28, 2008

    Anonymous says:

    I have PulseAudio (compatible with ESD clients) installed on an Ubuntu 8.0.4 des...

    I have PulseAudio (compatible with ESD clients) installed on an Ubuntu 8.0.4 desktop. And I wish to use the sound card on that box on a networked windows machine as if it was a local sound card. Is this possible?

  3. Mrz 13, 2009

    Anonymous says:

    Hi, Has anyone tried to execute ESound in a Java application? We have a java ap...

    Hi,

    Has anyone tried to execute ESound in a Java application? We have a java application on a Solaris 10 and whant to "transfer" sound to the windows machine running Xmanager. Our vendor of this Java application don't know how to do this. Any examples?

    Regards;

    Björn

  4. Okt 08, 2009

    Anonymous says:

    Link is broken to download. Where can I get it?

    Link is broken to download. Where can I get it?

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