Anyone know any decentralized audio streaming software?

[Scorpioff]

I was wondering if anyone knew of any [client] software that takes an audio stream from an input - the mic - samples it, optionally codes it with a codec, and then packetize it to send over the network to an IP address and port number.

And on the same machine and other machines can be [server] software listening on a port that would take any packets arriving on that port from another IP address, depacketize it, optionally decode it, and output it - to the speaker.

I'm trying to allow voice over a MANET / Mesh network in a cave, with no outside connection, so can't rely on logging in to other nets or server based VoIP.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

[TheCatMan]

Pulse Audio can take sound from an input on one machine to output on another. I don't know if it compresses the sound in between though.

[ph34r]

VLC can do this. In fact, I use VLC to grab audio, video or both, encode it to mp4, and send it off to a darwin streaming server (F/OSS of Quicktime streaming server from apple) which then sends it on to The World.

[Scorpioff]

Thanks TheCatMan and ph34r,

I just wasn't sure where to look. I'll look at both. The command line route is what we need as we'll be running a recent Fedora on little nodes with no screen ultimately. I'll start from there.