(I hope this is in the right section....I thought this could be in a number of different ones)
So here I was, bored out of my skull and talking on Ventrilo for the first time in months. I got thirsty and wanted to get a Pepsi but I had none in the house. I didn't want to leave Ventrilo (as I haven't been on in a while and was actually talking about some things to some friends) so I was debating "Do I go get my Pepsi and leave the chatroom or do I stay here but stay thirsty?
I then had this idea.
I just bought a new cell phone and I am sitting in a 3-month "Unlimited Local Talking". Now I thought that it would be cool to be able to call a number and get linked into Ventrilo while you are out. Totally useless in my eyes as no one would ever use it except for this one moment that I wanted to use it. In thinking about that though, I got even more ideas which eventually lead me to develop (or think up) a portable Ventrilo Client.
1) I set up Ventrilo's speakers and microphone to my "Sound Blaster" card. I set my microphone to "What U Hear" so that any noise my computer made, was transmitted on the microphone channel.
2) I opened up Skype (as I have a $3.00 Unlimited Canada-US Calling Plan on it) and set the microphone also to the Sound Blaster's "What U Hear" mode and the speakers to "Sound Blaster" (you can probably see where I'm going with this now).
3) I called my cell phone from Skype. When I spoke into my cell phone, it was sent to Skype, which then in turn sent it to Ventrilo so everyone can hear. Anytime someone talked on Ventrilo, Skype would pick up the noise as my microphone's signal and send it to my cell phone allowing me to hear what was happening in Ventrilo.
Now the only problem that I was faced with was the ability to keep transmitting the signal. Taking off "Push To Talk" and leaving the sensitivity on did not produce any results as the program was canceling out it's own sounds causing the "talk light" to never come on. So I had to use "Push To Talk" in order to transmit.
Pen Cap to the rescue!
So in the end, I got my Pepsi and I was able to speak on Ventrilo and listen the whole way. This is not something I probably will EVER use again but it was one of those "Can I do it?" things.
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Eli
(I hope this is in the right section....I thought this could be in a number of different ones)
So here I was, bored out of my skull and talking on Ventrilo for the first time in months. I got thirsty and wanted to get a Pepsi but I had none in the house. I didn't want to leave Ventrilo (as I haven't been on in a while and was actually talking about some things to some friends) so I was debating "Do I go get my Pepsi and leave the chatroom or do I stay here but stay thirsty?
I then had this idea.
I just bought a new cell phone and I am sitting in a 3-month "Unlimited Local Talking". Now I thought that it would be cool to be able to call a number and get linked into Ventrilo while you are out. Totally useless in my eyes as no one would ever use it except for this one moment that I wanted to use it. In thinking about that though, I got even more ideas which eventually lead me to develop (or think up) a portable Ventrilo Client.
1) I set up Ventrilo's speakers and microphone to my "Sound Blaster" card. I set my microphone to "What U Hear" so that any noise my computer made, was transmitted on the microphone channel.
2) I opened up Skype (as I have a $3.00 Unlimited Canada-US Calling Plan on it) and set the microphone also to the Sound Blaster's "What U Hear" mode and the speakers to "Sound Blaster" (you can probably see where I'm going with this now).
3) I called my cell phone from Skype. When I spoke into my cell phone, it was sent to Skype, which then in turn sent it to Ventrilo so everyone can hear. Anytime someone talked on Ventrilo, Skype would pick up the noise as my microphone's signal and send it to my cell phone allowing me to hear what was happening in Ventrilo.
Now the only problem that I was faced with was the ability to keep transmitting the signal. Taking off "Push To Talk" and leaving the sensitivity on did not produce any results as the program was canceling out it's own sounds causing the "talk light" to never come on. So I had to use "Push To Talk" in order to transmit.
Pen Cap to the rescue!
So in the end, I got my Pepsi and I was able to speak on Ventrilo and listen the whole way. This is not something I probably will EVER use again but it was one of those "Can I do it?" things.
Your thoughts on this little project I did?
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