[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX and Sound

[Dimitar Paskov]

Hi
As you have found without nxesd there is no sound ;)
About the compression unfortunately I think there is no compression at all for 
the music, it is streamed straight to the client making a lot of traffic ... 
it is fine in local LAN or even in high speed internet connection but I don't 
know if it works in low speed connections ... right now I listen to music and 
there is about 200-300kB traffic between the client and the server.
There were a discussion about this topic a while ago in the lists, you can 
find it if you are interested in multimedia through NX.

> Thanks Dimitar.
>
> So, you need nxesd working to get sound.  I didn't even know it existed
> - I haven't worked with anything like esd before.  Looking at it now, it
> appears nxesd didn't compile correctly on one machine and it's giving me
> unresolved symbols on another one.   So, that's gotta be it.
>
> I'm guessing that when nxesd runs, anything that can use "esound" would
> be able to utilize this, and nxesd will forward the audio out to the
> client.   What does it do to encode the audio?  Does it use any sort of
> compression?  There's really no options in the nxclient - "on" and "off"
> appear to be the options.
>
> Thanks, you've pointed me in the right direction.