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Re: [Tutorial] tinycore OSS audio streaming
« Reply #15 on: December 31, 2010, 05:02:18 AM »
This is definitely a very nice hack. My first thought would have been to use NAS.
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Re: [Tutorial] tinycore OSS audio streaming
« Reply #16 on: December 31, 2010, 07:17:23 AM »
I was freely referring to the manual you had adviced me to read (and what I had absorbed and though t to understand about it)...
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the listen mode can be used to obtain some kind of stream of data from a remote site
Sorry, I haven't read that man page before. ;)

Here are some relevant parts of the old UNIX man pages for it's tcp library. And I guess there are billions of books about this subject...
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          tcp_connect(fd, lport, faddr, fport)
          tcp_listen(fd, lport, faddr, fport)

          TCP is one of the many protocols which are layered upon IP
          (internet protocol).  It provides full duplex byte stream
          connections between end points called sockets.  The address
          of a socket is composed of the internet address of its host
          and the port number to which the socket is bound.

          Tcp_connect binds socket fd to port lport and attempts to
          set up a connection to the socket bound to port fport on
          host faddr. Tcp_connect returns 0 if the connection is
          established, -1 otherwise.  Communications proceeds by per-
          forming read(2) and write(2) on fd.

          Tcp_listen binds socket fd to port lport and configures the
          socket to listen for connection requests to that port.  If
          faddr and fport are non-zero, only connections coming from
          sockets on machine faddr and bound to port fport are lis-
          tened for.  Tcp_listen returns 0 on success, -1 otherwise.
          Select(2) can be used with a listening socket to provide
          asynchronous polling of connection requests.

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Re: [Tutorial] tinycore OSS audio streaming
« Reply #17 on: December 31, 2010, 07:30:48 AM »
This is definitely a very nice hack. My first thought would have been to use NAS.

Quote from: http://radscan.com/nas/nas-README.txt
A X11 build environment (make, xmkmf, imake, X11/ headers, etc) is
required to compile NAS.
Quote from: http://radscan.com/nas/nas-README.txt
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Re: [Tutorial] tinycore OSS audio streaming
« Reply #18 on: December 31, 2010, 07:36:24 AM »
There's a nas.tcz, no compiling required ;)
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Re: [Tutorial] tinycore OSS audio streaming
« Reply #19 on: December 31, 2010, 08:07:24 AM »
It depends on the X print library.
Come on, I don't even have a printer :P

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Re: [Tutorial] tinycore OSS audio streaming
« Reply #20 on: December 31, 2010, 11:26:29 PM »
Here are some relevant parts of the old UNIX man pages for it's tcp library.

Any particular reason you use tcp for this specific task (as opposed to udp)?
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Re: [Tutorial] tinycore OSS audio streaming
« Reply #21 on: December 31, 2010, 11:35:37 PM »
Heh, I was thinking exact same when I first ran into that dep.
On a closer look it is one lib of 20KB ;)
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Re: [Tutorial] tinycore OSS audio streaming
« Reply #22 on: January 01, 2011, 04:18:06 AM »
It's unnecessary as well :P

It's a part of the default link line of the Imakefiles, "just in case" the app also uses that. Using -Wl,-as-needed in ldflags usually gets rid of those, or they could also be removed from the generated Makefile. (they, because there are other unused libs linked in too).
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Re: [Tutorial] tinycore OSS audio streaming
« Reply #23 on: January 01, 2011, 06:22:40 AM »
Any particular reason you use tcp for this specific task (as opposed to udp)?
None at all. I leave this as an exercise for the reader :)

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Re: [Tutorial] tinycore OSS audio streaming
« Reply #24 on: January 20, 2011, 09:11:00 AM »
Wondering if anyone has attempted to take this a step further, i.e. controlling player, volume and netcat of the target box from the source box - all I could think of would be running a ssh server on the target box and client on source box to achieve this.
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Re: [Tutorial] tinycore OSS audio streaming
« Reply #25 on: January 20, 2011, 03:19:11 PM »
You mean to have something even more lightweight than mpd?

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Re: [Tutorial] tinycore OSS audio streaming
« Reply #26 on: January 21, 2011, 02:35:51 AM »
No idea about mpd.
What I mean is particularly to control alsamixer/ossmix and to reinitiate the netcat pipe - which would die if it had been cancelled on source machine side - on the target machine.
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Re: [Tutorial] tinycore OSS audio streaming
« Reply #27 on: January 21, 2011, 09:37:29 AM »
Yeah, well, you can either run the listening process on the target in a loop, like that: "while true; do soundserver.sh; done"

Or, if you have ssh with key certification enabled (copy the source machine's public key to the .ssh/authorized_keys file on the target.), include something like this in the source machine's script: "ssh other_command.sh".

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Re: [Tutorial] tinycore OSS audio streaming
« Reply #28 on: January 21, 2011, 12:36:04 PM »
Not using ssh with key certification enabled, just dropbear sshd and dropbear client.
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Re: [Tutorial] tinycore OSS audio streaming
« Reply #29 on: January 21, 2011, 02:11:42 PM »
dropbear knows how to read the authorized_keys file, just cp your public key in there and you can automate ssh commands without typing your password