[Asterisk-Users] Music - Hold -> live sound source ?

[Mark Spencer]

In principle you could use a named pipe in the filesystem right?  Then you
don't have to fork/exec anything (man mkfifo)

Mark

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Chris Albertson wrote:

>
> Try this.  Make a "pipe" called "live.mp3" then use the normal
> Asterisk music on hold function for play the pipe.
>
> Next you will need a very simple copy type script to read
> dev/audio filtr it through an MP3 encoder and write it to the
> pipe.
>
> Somehow you fork/exec the script just before connecting the
> call to music on hold.
>
>
> --- Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 18:35, Gary wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I am looking for a way to actually have a live feed for a music on
> > hold
> > > channel.
> > >
> > > Basically this is for a local radio station feed so people can ring
> > to
> > > get the lastest report... Sort of like the US vhf weather
> > channels....
> > >
> > > ANy ideas please ??
> >
> > If you are only wanting to use 1 line, then you could use chan_oss
> > and
> > autoanswer to connect an incoming call to the soundcard. If you want
> > more, you may need to write an app that would access the soundcard or
> > an
> > app that could multiplex the soundcards input.
> > --
> > Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>
> >
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