[asterisk-app-dev] Playing media into bridge via HTTP

[Dan Jenkins]

Hello All,

Was talking to a few people yesterday about how I'd like to be able to play
media from an external source into Asterisk using the ARI - say when adding
someone to a bridge - prompts/hold music come from an external source.

I know Paul B talked about this a month or so ago -
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-app-dev/2014-March/000408.html

That ended up being a technical discussion about local channels etc; I'd
like to get to a point where we find out if this is something people want
so the Asterisk Team can decide if it's something worth putting into their
timescales - hence the new topic - sorry if anyone disagrees!

For me, external source = HTTP(S)

A really basic example of what I mean... the absolute radio mp3 stream
(they have many other stream codec types - FLAC being the best they give)

http://network.absoluteradio.co.uk/core/audio/mp3/live.pls?service=vrbb

Obviously there may be licensing issues with *that* stream but you get
where I'm coming from - and issues when it comes to different codecs.

Going a little further, it may not be a stream at all and may just be a
file over http. Essentially I wouldn't want to have to put files onto the
same filesystem as Asterisk - my ARI application may live outside of
Asterisk itself.

What do people think about this?

Dan
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