Stream audio from VNC/RDP server

Question

My server is running Ubuntu 14.04. My laptop, which is running an RDP client, is also running Ubuntu 14.04. I want to connect to my server and be able to listen to videos over the connection.

How do I stream audio over a remote desktop connection between two Ubuntu machines?

EDIT: I just remembered that on some occasions I'll be using SSH port-forwarding, so any ports beyond 5900/3389 would need to be forwarded (if required).

Unfortunately I have no experience with RDP on Ubuntu (which has audio implemented for Windows) but you still may be interested in my answer there. — Takkat, Apr 27 '15 at 06:48

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 27 '15 at 10:16

The RFB protocol (used by VNC) doesn't support audio, so this is not able to solve the issue.
Any remote desktop-viewing application will not give you a good frame-rate to watch videos.
I recommend looking into streaming the media instead, there are a number of tools available to do this such as plex, and I personally use VLC for this myself.

Stream audio from VNC/RDP server

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