Timeline for Stream Music To Ventrilo From ESXi VM
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| Jan 5, 2011 at 15:48 | comment | added | MDMarra | @omg - Nicely done. You should post it to the VMWare community boards. You'll be a hero :) | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 10:34 | comment | added | omghai2u | Just wanted to update that, after much hard word, I did write the driver I outlined here and it works wonderfully. Too bad it was apparently impossible. | |
| Jun 9, 2010 at 20:31 | vote | accept | omghai2u | ||
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| Jun 8, 2010 at 10:45 | comment | added | MDMarra | @omhhai2u - It's because there is no audio device to write the driver for. | |
| Jun 8, 2010 at 5:59 | comment | added | omghai2u | @MarkM: I see what you're saying; I just don't see why it's impossible to do on the VM or how it's very different from my movie scenario. It doesn't need to output the sound to an actual device (which, I can clearly see would be impossible), it just needs to take an audio stream (from a file) and send it to the listening client (ventrilo) running on the same machine. Having only written a few drivers for Windows myself, this seems doable. I just don't get why it would require something special to move one audio buffer to an awaiting client that's expecting an audio buffer. | |
| Jun 7, 2010 at 13:34 | comment | added | MDMarra | @omghai2u - those are two different tasks. To "pump" the audio to a remote server you would have to process it on the local machine, which is impossible in ESXi. Hosting video to stream via VLC is totally different. In that case, the server hosts the files and provides a way for the client to connect and stream the files. The audio and video processing are done on the client. | |
| Jun 7, 2010 at 4:09 | comment | added | omghai2u | I guess that makes sense. But it just seems like the driver should be able to take the audio from VLC or similar and pump it out to Ventrilo without having to worry about whether or not it's going to be "heard" by an audio device on the machine itself. After all, I can stream movies from that VM through VLC over the Internet without issue. | |
| Jun 6, 2010 at 20:56 | history | answered | MDMarra | CC BY-SA 2.5 |