Sound overnetwork (Sharing a sound card)

[Catsrules]

I have seen and asked this question before, and from what I have read, This can't be done.

What I am trying to do. watch a movie on my projector... with sound
I have a projector, and laptop and desktop. All running windows (except the projector )
The desktop is in the wrong place for my projector to connect up to it. So I will use my laptop, But my speakers and setup on my desktop. So I can either have good sound and small video, or I can have Big video and lousy sound.

Is there a way to send the sound over the network and have it play on my desktop?
If not I guess I will see if I can dig up a long male to male 3.5mm headphone cable.

Thanks

 

[Emerald]

you better start digging for the headphone cable

 

[Catsrules]

Lol, yeah I figured as much
Thanks for you help.

 

[Catsrules]

Best answer selected by Catsrules.

 

[someone19]

VLC has a streaming mode and allows you to have multiple windows showing the same movie.

So you setup the desktop to stream the movie through the network and display on the desktop. The laptop connects to the stream from the desktop and displays the movie on the projector. Mute speakers on the laptop, crank the speakers on the desktop and it'll also have the picture on the desktop monitor, but who cares?

www.videolan.org

 

[Catsrules]

I will have to try that.
How well do you think I will work on 1080p videos?

 

[someone19]

I'm non HD. It might be better to transfer the video to the laptop for playback and then stream just the audio over the network. I believe that should be possible.

For my setup I built an extra long s-video cable along with an RCA cable to have the digital SPDIF into the home theater in the living room, and I use XBMC on the desktop. That doesn't involve two computers however, and s-video is certainly not an HD connection. In my research however, I used VLC for quite awhile and had stumbled across these configuration options.