Audio Transfer

[HyperPalBuddy]

Hi guys, I have a linux laptop and a windows PC.  I have a pair of headphones connected to my windows PC.

 

Is there a way for me to share the audio from my linux PC to my windows PC or vice versa so I can enjoy both the audio streams on one pair of headphones. 

 

 

[saintlouisbagels]

Simultaneously?

Or just an easy switcher when you switch between computers?

[Sandbass]

What kind of headphones are you using and what are your aspirations regarding quality, latency etc.?

 

 

[HyperPalBuddy]

1 hour ago, Sandbass said:

What kind of headphones are you using and what are your aspirations regarding quality, latency etc.?

 

 

I use a Corsair VOID RGB (so a usb headset). In terms of Quality and latency I'm ok with a few milliseconds or something, just need it for some audio (Youtube or movies) while I'm playing games. 

[HyperPalBuddy]

7 hours ago, saintlouisbagels said:

Simultaneously?

Or just an easy switcher when you switch between computers?

Yeah I need it simultaneously. I use barrier to share keyboard and mouse, need someway to share audio.

[Kilrah]

I've been using Voicemeeter on the Windows side for receiving and mixing (need at least the Banana version for the VBAN integration) and vban_emitter on the linux machine, worked great.

 

 

[Heats with Nvidia]

The two easiest ways, i can think of, are, you either connect the headphone out of the linux machine to the line in of the windows machine and use a software mixer. But then you have one DA/AD conversion too much which degrades your sound slightly. Or you get a hardware mixer that mixes the sound of both computers for your headphones.

[NinJake]

I've tinkered with VBAN once and it did not seem to work. I'm sure I missed a configuration somewhere or my router was potentially blocking the traffic. Was it fairly easy to set up @Kilrah? I have the Voicemeeter license just haven't gotten around to reinstalling on my current setup.

 

To OP: I do think a physical mixer is the easiest solution if it's ever possible, however for your use case (USB headphones)... you may need to get some "standard" analog headphones to utilize a physical mixer. (I'm not aware if they have any mixers that support USB off the top of my head)

[Kilrah]

1 minute ago, NinJake said:

Was it fairly easy to set up @Kilrah?

Yep, was straightforward. You really want both machines wired, with fixed IPs, set the transmitting machine to send to the IP of the receiving one, then once started on the receiving end right click on one of the "Stream name" fields and it should find the stream, click on it, select the destination strip and you should be good to go. Make sure to actually enable VBAN on the page