[asterisk-users] Asterisk -> Streaming Audio Bridge

[Tim Panton]

On 26 Feb 2007, at 18:17, Eric Germann wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Does anyone know of a tool that can act as a VoIP client and stream  
> to a
> streaming server such as shoutcast/icecast, etc.
>
> I've got a client interested in doing basketball play by plays during
> tourney season.  They have * in place now and the bandwidth to burn  
> for
> streaming out.  In the old world, I did an analog phone patch ->  
> mixer ->
> encoder -> streaming server.  What I'm thinking of is more along  
> the lines
> of a client that registers as a SIP/IAX client, answers the phone and
> patches it to a streaming server.
>
> Thoughts/suggestions?

You could consider skipping the streaming server and just having
the users hit asterisk directly - It depends on the numbers of users
you want to serve, but you could drop them all into a muted  
app_conference.
That way you get mush less latency than you do with a streaming  
solution,
which might matter with something as quick as a basketball game.


Tim Panton

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