duncanthrax/scream

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1932 stars · 159 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Scream is a virtual sound card device driver for Windows that broadcasts audio played on the machine as a PCM multicast stream over the local network. Receiver applications for Linux (PulseAudio/ALSA) and Windows can pick up the stream and play it on remote speakers, with optional IVSHMEM transport for QEMU virtual machines.

Use cases

• stream audio from a Windows PC to Linux speakers over the network
• get sound out of a Windows VM running on a QEMU host
• play Windows audio on a remote machine without cables
• set up a virtual network sound card
• redirect VM audio to the host via IVSHMEM

When to choose

• you need low-latency audio streaming from Windows to another machine on the same LAN
• you run a Windows guest in QEMU/KVM and want simple audio passthrough
• you want a lightweight multicast-based audio redirect instead of PulseAudio network modules

When to avoid

• you need audio streaming over the internet or WAN rather than a local network
• you require encryption or authentication on the audio stream
• your Windows 10 install cannot load cross-signed kernel drivers and you cannot use the workarounds

Facets

application · maturity active

audio-processing networking windows windows cross-platform virtual-sound-card audio-streaming multicast kernel-driver qemu ivshmem pcm audio virtualization linux

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