Rich: I appreciate a good idiot smack as much as the next idiot, thanks for the catch. Nothing like mindless copy/paste to propagate stupidity.
But, if I can humbly mention: I have tried to also use rdesktop on all tests in the event I had f-ed up the xfreerdp stings but rdesktop didn't produce local sound either. Meanwhile, I'll crawl back and re-work all the xfreerdp tests. Thanks for your time and thanks for going easy on me.
Aus: Yes, I used Freerdp-ffmpeg earlier, when I knew how to spell, but with no change in result. Side note if it matters: I currently use Xorg-7.5 because Xorg-7.6 was causing vid problems. btw...I think it was my turn to bring the drool buckets to the next village idiots meeting. cya there, if you're still talking to me.