Control media over a network

[ithonicfury]

I have a computer on a network (over the internet on a VPN), and Im looking for a way to have it play sounds that I can control from another computer.

ie. On my laptop I connect to the remote computer and have a playlist or something where I can select a song, sound file, etc, and then play it over the default audio output device on the remote computer.

Preferably something with a very light front end/protocol so that I can use it over a dialup connection. Is there anything out there like that that anybody knows about?

[Scarecrow Man]

About VLC media player

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

It doesn't need any external codec or program to work.

http://www.videolan.org/

:D

P.S. I too have dialup, and good luck trying to stream video. even audio is not great.

[ithonicfury]

Im not trying to stream anything.

I want to have the stuff play on the default output on the remote computer (the one thats running the server/not the laptop).

[Scarecrow Man]

So you want to broadcast from one PC over the internet to another PC? Videolan should be able to do this.

[ithonicfury]

No, all the media is on the remote computer, no audio/video going over the internet.

I found a Winamp plugin that might work, and I know that VLC had alternative interfaces like telnet or http, but VLC is just way too clumsy a program for me.