plebaudio is a no-bullshit script demonstrating how to use a FIFO pipe to stream data over UDP.

It is intended to be used as a sound server. For example, mpv is able to output raw PCM audio using --ao=pcm --ao-pcm-file=/some/fd. We can use this to our advantage and create a simple audio streaming protocol.

Server-side, we can just run:

$ socat -b 2048 STDIO UDP-LISTEN:2115 | aplay

Locally, we can run plebaudio and then play something with mpv:

$ plebaudio my-sound-server:2115
$ mpv 'https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Mw__xMOkrRE' --ao=pcm --ao-pcm-file=/tmp/plebaudio.sock

Quit plebaudio with ^C.

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