[Asterisk-Users] Streaming MP3's from Asterisk with Ices

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 07:04:43AM -0700, Geoff Karl wrote:
> On 7/20/05, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 05:44:17PM -0700, Geoff Karl wrote:
> > 
> > > Being that my end goal is to stream an mp3 file any ideas on how this
> > > should be configured.
> > 
> > Why stream an mp3 file in the first place? Is the network saurated? Do
> > you really need the quality that mp3 offers you, just so you can
> > transcode it to phone quality and waste CPU in the process?
> > 
> > I wonder if it would be useful to stream music from another server using
> > simply asterisk or a similar voip server: a client holds a permanent
> > connection somewhere and provides a stream of sound.
> 
> I would like a client to be able to listen to a meetme conference
> without the need of any VOIP software.  I think most people have the
> MP3 codec installed on their local machine, but they don't have OGG
> installed.
> 
> Do you have other ideas on how this could be done?

Provide a simple, dumbed-down iax client that will connect to your
server to a specific extension. iaxclient comes with a simple
command-line program that has all the functionality you need, and you
just need to put some GUI around it. Alternatively, iaxcomm should be
hackable.

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