2006-09-09, 15:01
I would love to see XBMC act as a ESD (Enlightenment Sound Daemon) server.
ESD is the sound server used by Gnome and by including a sound server in XBMC I could redirect sound from any gnome app (for example rhythmbox) to XBMC. As much as I love XBMC, sometimes when I sit at my computer it is more convenient to run a media player on it rather than use the web interface of XBMC.
The ESD-code is freely available and I don't think it's too complex, so perhaps inclusion would not be too much work. On the other hand it has not been updated in a while and PulseAudio seems to be a more modern replacement, while keeping the protocol compatible with ESD.
http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html
http://pulseaudio.org/
ESD is the sound server used by Gnome and by including a sound server in XBMC I could redirect sound from any gnome app (for example rhythmbox) to XBMC. As much as I love XBMC, sometimes when I sit at my computer it is more convenient to run a media player on it rather than use the web interface of XBMC.
The ESD-code is freely available and I don't think it's too complex, so perhaps inclusion would not be too much work. On the other hand it has not been updated in a while and PulseAudio seems to be a more modern replacement, while keeping the protocol compatible with ESD.
http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html
http://pulseaudio.org/