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Forwarding audio like X in SSH

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Mar 15, 202652843 views
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While it is possible to use X applications remotely by using -X switch in ssh, the sound is being played in remote machine's speaker only. For example if I view a film in VLC/Totem only video is visible and I can't hear the audio. Is there a way to forward audio too? [without digging through Pulse-…

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Fix for: Forwarding audio like X in SSH

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First, run , go to Network Server and check Enable network access to local sound devices. This will load "module-native-protocol-tcp" in PulseAudio. You can now access the PulseAudio server in several ways: Manually forward the TCP connection over S…

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