On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:51:42AM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: > I want to set up voice chat with another computer in Guatemala from US. > My ISP here blocks all incoming connections now so I need to ( I > assume) use SSH Tunneling through my server to make this work. > I looked at thread about voice chat with aucat, but I can't get > aucat to run on my server. > I get error: > # aucat -l > > aucat: <default>: can't open device > but aucat-user-id file is made in /tmp >
Hi, is this -current? check if you don't have other apps (eg other instances of aucat) using the audio device. IMO the simpler is to use a real telephony app. If you can't, once you manage to start aucat and to make playback and recording work on both machines you could do the following: aucat -e u8 -C 0:0 -r 8000 -o - | ssh host aucat -e u8 -r 8000 -c 0:0 -i - this allows the other person to hear you. He could talk to you by running the same command on his machine. If it works, you can use -e, -r, -z, -b, -r, ... to adjust quality and latency, then create the appropriate sub-devices to prevent evesdropping and so on. -- Alexandre
