software for transmitting speaker output over the network to another computer

is there any software for transmitting sound output of a computer over the network to another computer that you guys know about?

 

Shoutcast perhaps?

 

i think vlc streams over networks

 

Are we talking proper media streaming, or just windows sounds and stuff?

 

everything that comes out of the speakers.

 

Windows Remote Desktop ? I know it does all the windows / outlook / msn sounds, suspect it would for other applications also.

Otherwise your best bet is to proberbly use shoutcast/icecast and using the recording source as "master out" / "stereo out".

 

thanks

 

You face a problem in that anything the soundcard is asked to turn into sound is effectively 'lost' to the system. The output side of the soundcard is analogue so you can't capture it with software unless you loop the output back to the line-input, and then record from there. Things like remote desktop don't capture the output, but they hook the calls for system functions and then forward them to the other computer where they are then performed by the OS there.
You could thus make a 'loopback' thing either by plugging the speaker output back to the line-in socket, or doing what Delphium suggested.
If you do a loop, make sure the line-in output volume (i.e. the one which would otherwise control how much line-in is sent to the speakers) is muted or you'll get feedback. Recording level will need to be non-muted to some degree though.

 

You will find that is incorrect, the vast majority of sound cards will allow you to select the master audio out as a recording souce, in which it will capture the audio internaly, no extrenal cables required, you would select the "master out" sometimes known as "stereo out" the same way you would go about selecting line in, or mic in, within the volume mixer recording settings for xp or just under recording settings in vista.

Actually... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Protocol

 

I don't think you're trying to be pedantic so I think you might have misunderstood my attempt at a coherent post slightly I did try and avoid mentioning an external wire for this reason though My mentioning line-input probably didn't clarify things much.
So recording source as output channel - that's still a loop, but the loop is just smaller. You're still capturing the *output* of the card back as input - maybe you don't need a wire but the principle is the same - somewhere the output is connected back as an input.

Yes, but the mechanism for that isn't "record the output of the computer and send it over the network to be played locally", it's "when some software wants to produce a sound, intercept the request and the sound data, and send both across the network to be played by the other end [unless the RDP settings say to play it locally, or both]". So you can have two people logged in to the same PC, with different programs producing different sounds, and not get crosstalk. If the soundcard output was recaptured, you'd get problems in this situation.
Hopefully I actually said what I meant this time Though I suppose this is all irrelevant as yes, RDP can zip sounds across the network.