Stream audio to mobile device

I'd like to stream the audio from Ubuntu 10.10 to my HTC Desire HD (Android 2.2).

I've seen solutions so far for streaming from audio players, but I'd like to stream any audio output from the PC to my phone. My use case is for watching TV/Films in VLC or online (BBC iPlayer) in bed, without having to use my surround sound system which is likely to wake up my house mates. I'm not just talking about music from Banshee, but any audio that the system makes.

I was thinking that PulseAudio is pretty powerful, is it possible to route audio through that to a mobile device? Can it be done through bluetooth?

Cheers in advance!

Solution 1:

While these may not be the options you land on, I'd like to offer you two solutions: One from the 90s (maybe late 80s) and the other from the 1870s (yeah, late nineteenth century technology):

• You could buy some wireless headphones. You can get fairly good enclosed sets for under £50. If quality isn't too much of an issue, halve that number.

• Now we cast back a wee bit further, we hit the granddad of all remote listening: the audio extension cable. These are as cheap as anything and if you have a soldering iron you can buy a stereo spool for almost nothing, add on some pennies for the connectors and wire-up an extended port to your bed.

Both these solutions have next-to-no lag. Obviously the second has less lag but it's a much more hackish solution. I'd just buy some remote headphones and be done with it.

Time (that you might spend looking for the perfect solution) isn't worthless, after all.

Solution 2:

SoundWire app
Download SoundWire Server at http://georgielabs.net/. Depending on your PC operating system choose the Windows 7, Windows XP, Linux 64-bit, or Linux 32-bit version as appropriate.

• Linux version 32-bit
• Linux version 64-bit

Audio can be streamed using Wifi, internet