On 9/13/2011 11:21 AM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:39:13 -0700, Jim
wrote:

Oddly, I have been looking for a simple streaming audio app (to bring
back audio from remote receivers via 802.11 for a antenna measurement
project)... This one is clearly not it, but what else is out there.

Skype. It's commonly used to deliver the audio portion of HRD (Ham
Radio Deluxe).

Doesn't skype not support point to point? i.e. you couldn't do it from
192.168.1.10 to 192.168.1.20 on a private network. I thought skype
always needs to through the master skype resolver (to do a sort of
dynamic dns function)


Install the remote end with your favorite operating
system and set Skype to auto-answer any incoming calls from your
account. As soon as you connect, you get audio, with fairly low
latency.

If you want to roll your own, there's:
http://www.speakfreely.org

Yes.. of course there's that "end of life announcement" from 2004.

I suppose that if it works well enough, one can keep using it forever
(gosh, I've got plenty of software from the 90s that I keep using)



There's also:
http://umediaserver.net/umediaserver/download.html
There are plenty of other streaming audio apps available. However, be
careful as many of them are designed for streaming music or video, and
therefore have enormous latency. I vaguely recall my adventure with
Microsloth Media Encoder 9 and it's 45 second delay.


Yes, and they have all sorts of other features tailored for that kind of
application.

All I was looking for was a "virtual audio cable" of some sort. (yes, I
know that VAC is actually something else)


If you want multiple channels of audio, better bandwidth, or have some
exotic requirements, you'll need to supply more detail.


No, just that kind of simple thing.. send 3kHz BW audio from one PC to
another, preferably with an app that is available for all 3 platforms
(Win, Mac, *nix)

Something that has a command line like:
sendaudio -i {input audio source} -o 192.168.1.1
recvaudio -i 192.168.1.1 -o {output audio device}

would make me happy.