[asterisk-users] Windows Media streaming for MOH?

[Anthony Francis]

shadowym wrote:
>  
> Anyone have Windows Media streaming for MOH working?  I followed the various
> procedures on the Asterisk Wiki for using mplayer which seems to be the only
> Linux player capable of playing windows media streaming audio (asf, wmv
> etc.).  Anyone get this working?
>
> I can get shoutcast streams working using mpg123 but so far no luck with
> windows media streaming.  Is there another player out there or a trick of
> some sort?  I've been googling but so far no luck.  
>
> The problem is that many radio stations including the local ones people in
> my area use for MOH on their traditional PBX's use windows media streaming.
> As a work around I would consider streaming it from a softphone on a Windows
> PC to a conference room if I had to.  That may be easier to do but haven't
> found much info on that either.  Worst case I would consider a receiver on
> Line In on a softphone on a Windows PC or absolute worst case, from line in
> audio on the Asterisk server.
>
> Streaming local radio directly on the Asterisk server is the most elegant
> solution IMHO.  Any help would be appreciated.
>
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Easiest way without a native decoder is to have another machine receive 
the wmv and transcode it.