I have a MacMini connected to the big-screen tv on one side of my living room. I have my gaming computer on the other side of my living room. I often use VNC to control the Mac, so I don't have to get up to change which iTunes playlist I'm listening to, or play a movie, or whatever.

I would like to be able to do something similar with the audio.

Here's my problem. Sometimes it's really hard to get the volume just right when I'm at the far end of the room. If I increase the volume to a level where I can hear everything, it sometimes annoys the neighbours.

So, is there a way I can stream all the audio from the MacMini so I can listen to it using a Linux laptop at the far end of the living room without annoying the neighbours?

Because I want to set this up for watching movies, it needs to be fast enough to stay in sync with the picture.

(It might just be easier to run some speaker wire across the room, but I like to try to do things the hard way first. Heh heh heh...)

Well that is certainly possible with a number of tools and daemons on the Linux side, but since you are trying to stream from a Mac, that does change things a bit.

After looking around at the various audio daemons I am aware of, it looks like PulseAudio works under Mac OS, so that would be the first thing I would try.