#Vlc raspberry install#

As I am capturing low quality radio audio, single mono channel with a low MP3 bitrate of 64Kb/s is more than adequate. We will transcode the audio to MP3 as the format is well supported by web browser and audio clients. The capture device is ‘alsa://plughw:1’ for capture from card 1.

#Vlc raspberry install#

First ensure that VLC is installed and up to $ sudo apt-get install vlcĠ upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 257 not upgraded. Now we can run VLC to capture the audio, transcode it to MP3 and host it on a web server for streaming to a client. **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****Ĭard 1: Device, device 0: USB Audio In my case there is only one appearing as card $ arecord -l We also find the soundcard audio capture device to be used for recording the system audio. The client will need the address to connect and stream the $ ifconfig In my case it is 192.168.1.20 on wifi interface ‘wlan0’. Find out the RPI IP address and audio capture device.įirst, we find the IP address of the RPI serving the audio. Here are the steps to get the audio streaming working. It looks as if it has an Intel $ lsusbīus 001 Device 018: ID 8086:0808 Intel Corp.

I bought a cheap ‘3D Sound’ soundcard from Ebay for almost nothing. To get this working you will need a USB soundcard and a short 3.5mm patch cable to connect the RPI audio out to the souncard audio in jack socket. Luckily I found a rock solid workaround using a cheap USB soundcard and VLC. PulseAudio’s ‘module-native-protocol-tcp’ with audio loopback appeared broken and Soundwire very flakey. VNC or RDP either don’t support audio or just did not work. It took more than remote desktoping to make this possible. My aim was to listen to the radio on a remote Raspberry PI hooked to a RTL-SDR dongle. Sometimes it is necessary to stream the system audio over the network.