sound over VNC to osx?

[Dan Jenkins]

On 9/21/2013 9:07 PM, David Rysdam wrote:
> Long story short, I'm trying to  VNC from a Linux laptop (client) to
 > an OSX desktop (server). Graphically, no problem, other than the fact
 > I need a bigger monitor on the client side.
 >
 > But I'm not getting any sound on the client end. I tried a couple
 > different software clients and two different hardware clients. Then
 > I RTFM and realized VNC itself doesn't support sound. Tried a client
 > that claimed to have some kind of built-in support (via ssh?), but
 > that didn't work either.
 >
 > As I'm typing this, I'm realizing that anything a smart client wants
 > to do would have to be supported by the server sending it, which OSX
 > probably isn't.
 >
 > Has anyone else done this?


No version of VNC supports remote audio.
RFB (the VNC protocol) is purely a pixel-based protocol
with no audio capability.

As you indicated, there may be alternative methods to transport
the audio separately, but I have never found one that works.
(Not that I've tried hard to find one.)

A number of other remote clients claim to do remote audio,
however, I have never tried audio with any of them.


VNC is the server, not OS X, as I understand the protocol.
I think of VNC as screen-scraping the pixels off whatever graphical 
display the OS provides.

This is unlike, say Remote Desktop, which generates a separate desktop 
session.

(I guess this post isn't that helpful. All I've done is confirm you 
can't do audio with VNC.
Not provided any solution.)

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