Help with NAS (Network Audio System) setup.

Question

Anyone having any ideas how to set up this? I couldn't find any documentation, no howtos, no help, just an obscure nasd.con.eg in the package.
Has anyone managed to set up a client and a server for this system, it'd be really useful to me...

Answer 1

Idd, seeking is hard and really hacky (:D) to implement with the two process solution. :\ You can use the
extern-movie.sh 10.0.0.4 movie.mkv 124
to seek where you want in the files, but you'd have to exit the script, then restart the script in the middle of a movie ... :\ Writing a plugin for MPlayer might kinda defeat the simplistic design of rsound. Shouldn't be hard to implement though. I made an rsound client in python in like 5 mins, so shouldn't be too hard.
As for NAS: http://linux.die.net/man/1/nasd this helped a little, but it really looks like legacy software. "When the Network Audio System server starts up, it takes over /dev/audio."
I've been trying to get nas up and running, and it wasn't hard to get it to play some stuff with mplayer, but it feels quite broken using the default config + mplayer. Might be my alsa emulation of course, but mplayer showed hickups, erratic framerate (-autosync 100 helped against this), bad sound quality, and a couple of crashes.
You could try this from the command line. Shouldn't need to set-up any config file yet.
sudo nasd -aa
And running this in another shell:
mplayer <movie> -ao nas
Try it locally, not sure how to set up nas to connect to extern servers. :\
Last edited by Themaister (2010-01-04 18:47:10)