[lug] Ethernet sound card

[Ben Luey]

Maybe I'm misreading things and/or ignorant. Ethernet cable comes with 8
wires, but only 4 are used. Why not splice two wires off the ethernet that
comes in to your computer and plug them into your sound card's output.
Then do the same splice at your hub and at your stero and you've
effectively got a long RCA cable running along with your ethernet so no
(visible or new) wires and no codec problems. Maybe I'm missing the point.
But I don't think I remember what was wrong with a long RCA cable in the
first place.

Ben


On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Peter Hutnick wrote:

> > Ok, here's what I think Peter wants:
> > He wants his ethernet card in his computer to act like a sound card, so
> that
> > every sound, wether he's using xmms, watching movies, playing a game,
> etc..
> > that all those sounds go out via the ethernet card, over ethernet wire
> into
> > a stereo.
> > Though he doesn't want it do go into the stereo with a built in NIC,
> that
> > would require a computer within the stereo, he just wants it to go in
> and
> > have the 4 pairs of ethernet wire connect to whatever neccesary stereo
> > component would produce sound from the ethernet cable. Nothing more, no
> IP,
> > no computer at the other end.
> > Well, hope I made some logic of this..
>
> Very, very close.  I want the Ethernet card to act as a PCI to Ethernet
> bridge (in the same way that a SCSI card acts as a PCI to SCSI bridge)
> that will allow me to connect an Ethernet peripheral to the system.
>
> On a Linux system this would mean nothing more than a device driver that
> looks like any other sound card driver to the rest of the system "on one
> end" and emits "decoded" audio data wrapped in Ethernet frames (via normal
> kernel access to the network subsystem) "out the other end."  (In the same
> way that audio data is wrapped up by the PCI kernel driver before shoots
> down the PCI bus to your sound card.)
>
> I think we are getting somewhere :-)
>
> -Peter
>
>
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