How to split audio

[Intexity]

So I had an idea and have no idea if it is possible or if so how. But thought that a program might be able to be built to do this. Please help this non programmer.
1) Could a program be made to split two audio sources on your computer to two seperate channels? (instance in mind game on headphones music on speakers)
2) What about a program that automatically shuts off your internet connection? Say you turn your computer on before work and leave it on all day but you don't want any internet connection while you are gone. So a program that at set times would cut off your internet connection. The idea that although the load is small when idle there is still an unnecessary load that adds up with all the idle computers online. Here is something similar to what brought up the idea: http://enterprise.amd.com/Down...wrusecompletefinal.pdf
Anyways, these are ideas that one of you programmers might be able to make money with. Or are they already in existance??

 

[KLin]

I don't know about the audio question, but there is software out there built into routers that will not allow internet activity based on a schedule.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/

dd-wrt gives you the ability to setup a schedule of when internet activity is allowed.

 

[degibson]

It could be done.

 

[Modelworks]

I knew someone that had written a program that controlled a relay over the serial port. The relay would toggle the power to the networks switch. So when he wanted the network off, it really was off !

 

[Markbnj]

Taking KLin's point a step further, all modern routers allow you to specify an access rule and attach a schedule to it. You can block access based on IP, MAC, port, or subnet to portions of the LAN or WAN based on IP, subnet, port, etc. It's pretty flexible, although the interfaces are typically intimidating as all hell to a non-technical user.

On the audio question I'm not sure what you mean. You mention two sources, and then two channels, so I assume you mean sending one source to each channel? In any case, the hardware and driver capability is there to do this out of the box, but the Windows (not sure about Linux) end user software either doesn't allow this or doesn't make it easy. If you have a tool like Audition installed it's possible to point individual input sources to individual output channels.

 

[Intexity]

Thanks for your responses. As far as the audio is concerned what I wanted to do at the time of thinking of this was play a game on my headphones and have my music coming out of the surrounding speakers (2 2.1 speaker setup).
I will look at my router settings and see what I come up with.

 

[Markbnj]

That's different, because the headphones and speakers are the same output channel, with a hardware connection. Now if you have a sound board with multiple stereo line outs, you might be able to do something. There might even be something you can do in a combination of hardware/software to use the different channels in a 5.1 setup for this. But no simple software solution that I can imagine.

 

[Intexity]

Ok so I have an integrated Sound Blaster X-FI 8.1 setup. I have 3 sets of 2.1 speaker setups connected and a headset. What I was looking for was to listen to the music surrounding me with the game in my headphones (my girlfriend hates the noises that come out of my computer when gaming). Is it possible to control what audio sources go where?????