Ubuntu – How do i stream a video in the server to the computer

Pulseaudio will let you change the recording source for an active application so that it uses "what you hear".

Run PulseAudio Volume Control, go to the recording tab, next to the name of the running application you want to change the audio source for choose "Monitor of "your card"".

And you'll want to be using pulse as your sound source in the application you're streaming from.

Here's a screenshot. http://i.imgur.com/bLC2g.jpg

To install run:

sudo apt-get install pavucontrol

It should also be in the Applications menu under Sound and Video.

To 'set as fallback' in Input Devices make sure "Show:", in the bottom, is set to "Monitors".

use ssh -X with xauth, and run vlc on the server. It's fairly easy to stream videos using vlc. Howver this solution uses too much bandwidth to be usable.

What you should use instead is a network filesystem, just hit ctrl-l in nautilus, and then type sftp://user@my-server:port/folder and open up your movies directly off the server. This will use some cpu on both the server and client for the encryption, if that is a problem you can set up NFS.