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

[Geoff Karl]

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.
> 
> --
> Tzafrir Cohen         | tzafrir at jbr.cohens.org.il | VIM is

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?

thanks,

Geoff