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

[Geoff Karl]

On 7/21/05, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> --
> Tzafrir Cohen         | tzafrir at jbr.cohens.org.il | VIM is

The other beneift of not using a voip client is reducing server load,
since you only need to encode once.

Geoff