On Monday, January 2, 2017 at 10:49:01 AM UTC-5, john.david.r.smith wrote: > On 02/01/17 15:34, Jarle Thorsen wrote: > > As there is currently no audio support for Windows in Qubes OS: > > > > Can I use any of the Qubes windows tools to copy a video file to a Linux vm > > and have it start playing there? > > > > The file should only be copied to a temp directory, and not put in > > QubesIncomming. > > > > Which tool/syntax will let me do this? > > > there are two ways: > 1) (the better way if you can get a working setup) > for sound/video you can use streaming software (i did this some time ago). > you have a windows vm W and some linux vm N. > you set N as netvm for W. > then you use some virtual soundcard (i think i used hifi cable) and some > streaming software to stream the sound to the linux vm (i can't remember > what i used.) > on N you receive the stream. > since you can hear all audio output of a linux vm, you will hear sound > from W. > > my setup was fiddly and had about 2 sec audio delay. (but i did not > really bother to fix it, so you probably can do better) > > 2) > again have some linux vm N as netvm of a windows vm W. > then you can use public folders on W and mount the public folder on N. > now you can play the video from N. > > i used both methods for a while (until i completely switched to linux > for all my work-flows). > in both cases i did not use the windows tools. > > if you have working windows tools, you should have a qvm-open-in-dispvm > command . > you could also try this command. > (i am not really sure whether the windows tools contain this command)
sounds like this would be great for a big music playlist. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/e876e69a-0e37-479f-99dc-7c67aba8a52e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.