[asterisk-users] Dialplan Streaming

[Doug Garstang]

Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:
> Doug Garstang wrote:
>> Oh poo. No one seems to know. :(
>>
>> Doug Garstang wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> Is there a dial plan command that can stream uncompressed audio from 
>>> another source? I see there's an MP3Player command that can stream, 
>>> but I assume that plays MP3's, which means it has to decode them. 
>>> I'm looking for something that could play .wav or .ulaw (g711) streams.
>
> It would depend on how you define "streaming".  If you mean take an 
> audio stream from some web site, the answer is "no, but you might be 
> able to hack some up".  If you mean "stream a wav file to a user then 
> the answer is "show application playback" in the Asterisk CLI.  
> Playback supports any file format Asterisk supports.
> ___
I define streaming as reading an audio stream across the network, not 
from local disk, such as with the Playback, Read and Background 
commands. It can't be done? What about the ices2 app? I guess that just 
plays mp3 and ogg vorbis files.

Doug.