Network speakers.
           by Nikolay Igotti (igotti@gmail.com)

                          What it is?

  Basically a solution for lazy guys like myself, who for whatever reason 
prefer not to replug speakers from one box to another and better use software 
solution. Basically what it does it just captures data from one audio device,
transmits to another computer via TCP and let another instance of same 
program playback it.

                       How to use it.

  Unless someone can invent better solution here's what I did to play games
and listen music over the network. 
  - download (or buy) Virtual Audio Cable from http://www.ntonyx.com/vac.htm
    Shareware version insterts some boring woman's voice into data transmitted
    over virtual cable, maybe to give you motivation to purchase software.
  - install VAC and make virtual cable out default audio device on your system,
    which you planning to use to play sounds (speakerless)
  - start 2 instances of arepeater.exe (use radio button to select mode) 
        - one on machine which has speakers, in server mode 
        - one on machine which has VAC installed, in client mode
  Server side:
   - make sure output device is set to device which is one you want sound 
     to be played on
   - press Start button
  Client side:
   - note address of server machine, and enter it in Host field on client
   - make sure Virtual cable input is selected capture device
   - make sure default output audio device is exactly another side of 
     virtual cable used as input for the program
   - make sure server is aleady running
   - press Start button
   - have fun

                    Issues 

   - you should start client first, and then application that uses
     audio, otherwise there's a problem with capture format
   - It's more or less weekend hack, so it's really half baked
   - No preferences, hack defines in code
   - Latency is about 0.7 sec, whcih is hardly berable for anything more or 
     less realtime, but may be OK for slow strategies (original reason 
     of this project was to play HMM III without replugging speakers)
  

                     Licensing
 
     GPL, if you do want to send me the money - just do it :).

                      Author
 
     Nikolay Igotti (igotti@gmail.com)

                       
                       Feedback
  
     Feel free to tell me what you think about the program using my e-mail.
  I'd be happy to accept patches (especially decreasing latency and increasing
  useability of user interface), as long as they look sane and follows style 
  of other code (plz, no Hungarian notation).