I would like to control the sound card on a remote PC through a perl script on a web server.

Basically I have an old PC hooked up to my household sound system in a media closet. I can SSH to it and run mplayer to play a podcast or mp3 music over my home sound system. Works great. But I would like to make it a little more spouse and mother in law friendly by adding a web interface.

I built a little script, see below. But when I run this through a web server, it looks like it is running, but no sound comes out. I am guessing that the sound card cannot be accessed by the web server. How do I break through this? 

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use CGI qw(:cgi);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
$ENV{'PATH'} = '/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin';
# my $input = param('input');
# Hardcoded file because I am lazy.  Add input later.
my $input = '/share/Music/podcasts/071115/sd20071114.mp3';
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<center><h2>$input</h2></center>";
system "/usr/bin/mplayer $input"

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In reply to Sharing Sound card / Remote Media PC. by SkipHuffman

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