[MPlayer-users] mplayer sound over ssh ?

[Hans du Plooy]

On Tuesday 29 June 2004 22:00, Javier Sanchez Monzon wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> i would like to hear my music using mplayer at a remote computer.
>
> I have at home my mplayer programm.  I connect via ssh to my home, and then
> start mplayer.  I only can see the video but no sound.

Your sound is still getting played by the remote machine, as ssh doesn't do 
sound forwarding.

Somewhere out there I read of a sshfs project.  With this you could mount a 
directory on the remote PC locally (like you would with smbfs) and play (with 
local mplayer) off that.

Hans