[Asterisk-Users] MP3 streams for MOH: idea

[Andrew Joakimsen]

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> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of John Todd
> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 8:57 PM
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> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] MP3 streams for MOH: idea
> 
> 
> [thread change, different topic]
> >is there a clean way to have MOH (Music on Hold) source
> >its audio from say a  MS-ASF streem ???
> >
> >got a radio station that wants to have their MOH come
> >from their ASF based netbroadcast
> 
> I have run out of time for fooling around today, but I started to
> think about this one but have no time (or ability) to build this
> little glue program.  Perhaps something that uses named pipes would
> allow this to happen.  Do you know of any tools that convert ASF to
> mp3?
> 
> How about a little tiny program that connects to a remote host, grabs
> the contents of an MP3 stream, and pushes it into a FIFO locally?  It
> would be a raw TCP-to-FIFO stream, so mpg123 would be able to digest
> it as if it was a local file.  The program would take two arguments:
> remote hostname/IP and port, and then the file to which the output
> would be sent.  I don't know how mpg123 handles blocking...
> 
> Let's say you have a streaming music source in .mp3 format, on
> 10.0.3.1:8000
> 
> mkfifo /var/lib/asterisk/stream1.mp3
> ./backtoback 10.0.3.1:8000 /var/lib/asterisk/stream1.mp3
> 
> 
> Then...
> ; musiconhold.conf
> default => quietmp3:/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3

You are thinking along the lines of using a shoutcast radio stream? I
was thinking about trying something like that the other day, haven't had
the time to sit down and implement it yet...