TY  - JOUR
AB  - The authors have developed the “Ethernet Speaker” (ES), a network‐enabled single board computer embedded into a conventional audio speaker. Audio streams are transmitted in the local area network using multicast packets, and the ES can select any one of them and play it back. A key requirement for the ES is that it must be capable of playing any type of audio stream, independent of the streaming protocol, or the encoding used. The authors achieved this by providing a streaming audio server built using the kernel‐based audio stream redirector (ASR) in the OpenBSD kernel. The ASR accepts input from any of the existing audio file players, or streaming audio clients. Since all audio applications have to be able to use the system audio driver, this system can accommodate any protocol or file format, provided that there exists some compatible player running under OpenBSD. This paper discusses the design and implementation of the server as an ASR, the streaming protocol developed for this application, and the implementation of the client.
VL  - 21
IS  - 5
SN  - 1065-0741
DO  - 10.1108/10650740410567572
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/10650740410567572
AU  - Mandrekar Ishan
AU  - Prevelakis Vassilis
AU  - Turner David Michael
PY  - 2004
Y1  - 2004/01/01
TI  - An audio stream redirector for the Ethernet Speaker
T2  - Campus-Wide Information Systems
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 211
EP  - 216
Y2  - 2024/04/20
ER  -