Accessing a remote ARTS server

[Tom Bevan]

Hi,

A couple of months ago I wrote,

> How can I set up KDE so that the CD play et al will stream the sound to a
> remote aRts server?
> 
> Tom

and got a very complete answer from Laurie Watts.
Unfortunately, I can't get it running. At the time I put it down
to some incompatability between KDE2 and KDE3, but now
I've got KDE3 running on both machines and still nothing works.

Does anyone have any other suggestions? or at least way of 
looking at some debug logs.

Tom

I include Laurie's reply for completeness.

On the machine with the aRts server: (lets call it hostname "sound")

Make sure it's running, and working, before you start any of this.
In KControl, turn on "Exchange reference information over X11" (I'm 
paraphrasing, I just broke my Kcontrol :)
While you're there, turn on Network transparency.

On the machine you are playing sound from: (lets call it hostname "nosound")

In KControl, turn on "Exchange reference information over X11"
Turn on Network transparency
Turn *OFF* "start arts at KDE startup"
Make sure you can resolve the name of the sound server.  You should be able 
to type "ping sound" in a terminal, and get back the ip address.  Add it to 
/etc/hosts if you need to.  

What you should have now:
Arts running on the host "sound" and no arts running on machine "nosound", 
and "nosound" knows how to reach "sound".

And that's about all.  You should be able to run noatun on "nosound" and 
have the music appear out the speakers attached to "sound".

It's twitchy about the order, you need to be very sure arts is running on 
"sound" first, or programs will just start up an arts server on "nosound".

KSCD is a little more problematic, it's not natively an aRts program (in 
fact, that's why there's normally a cable from your CD-Rom drive to your 
soundcard, CD's don't normally use the soundcard at all, they just borrow 
the speakers.)  You may be able to run it "artsdsp kscd" but I haven't 
tried it.  Noatun and "artsdsp xmms" definitely work perfectly.

If you have trouble:
do "more ~/.mcoprc" in a terminal, on both machinse. You should have a line 
reading:
"GlobalComm=Arts::X11GlobalComm" (if it says Tmp instead of X11, change it, 
but that's what the KControl settings above should done)  If you find 
something is changing it back, set it read only.

Regards,
-- 
Lauri Watts



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