[docs](trx-rs): document audio streaming and new dependencies

Add Audio streaming section and Dependencies table covering system
libraries (libopus, cmake, pkgconf) and new Rust crates (cpal, opus,
bytes, actix-ws).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Grams <stanislawgrams@gmail.com>
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- AppKit GUI frontend (`trx-frontend-appkit`, macOS only, optional via `appkit-frontend` feature) - AppKit GUI frontend (`trx-frontend-appkit`, macOS only, optional via `appkit-frontend` feature)
- rigctl-compatible TCP frontend (`trx-frontend-rigctl`, listens on 127.0.0.1:4532) - rigctl-compatible TCP frontend (`trx-frontend-rigctl`, listens on 127.0.0.1:4532)
## Audio streaming
Bidirectional Opus audio streaming between server, client, and browser.
- **Server** captures audio from a configured input device (cpal), encodes to Opus, and streams over a dedicated TCP connection (default port 4533). TX audio received from clients is decoded and played back.
- **Client** connects to the server's audio TCP port and relays Opus frames to/from the HTTP frontend via a WebSocket at `/audio`.
- **Browser** connects to the `/audio` WebSocket, decodes Opus via WebCodecs `AudioDecoder`, and plays RX audio. TX audio is captured via `getUserMedia` and encoded with WebCodecs `AudioEncoder`.
Enable with `[audio] enabled = true` in the server config and `[frontends.audio] enabled = true` in the client config.
## Dependencies
### System libraries
The following system libraries are required at build time:
| Library | Purpose | Install |
|---------|---------|---------|
| **libopus** | Opus audio codec encoding/decoding | `zb install opus` (or your system package manager) |
| **cmake** | Required by the `audiopus_sys` build script if libopus is not found via pkg-config | `zb install cmake` |
| **pkg-config** / **pkgconf** | Locates system libopus during build | `zb install pkgconf` |
| **Core Audio** (macOS) / **ALSA** (Linux) | Audio device access via cpal | Provided by the OS (macOS) or `alsa-lib-dev` (Linux) |
### Rust crate dependencies
New crate dependencies introduced for audio streaming:
| Crate | Version | Used by | Purpose |
|-------|---------|---------|---------|
| **cpal** | 0.15 | trx-server | Cross-platform audio capture and playback (wraps Core Audio, ALSA, WASAPI) |
| **opus** | 0.3 | trx-server | Safe Rust bindings to libopus for encoding/decoding audio |
| **bytes** | 1 | trx-server, trx-client | Efficient byte buffer type for passing Opus packets through channels |
| **actix-ws** | 0.3 | trx-frontend-http | WebSocket support for the actix-web HTTP frontend (`/audio` endpoint) |
## Plugin discovery ## Plugin discovery
`trx-server` and `trx-client` can load shared-library plugins that register backends/frontends `trx-server` and `trx-client` can load shared-library plugins that register backends/frontends