asterisk users - Jul 2003 - Stream Phone Call: Sound on Consule OSS to Helix server?

Hello,

I am working on a project for a client of mine, that involves streaming
an incoming phone call. I have a lot of experience with Linux, but
something that I have never attempted is using sound under Linux, as all
my machines have been servers.

Here is the plan, is it doable?

The client (a minor league baseball team) calls in to a iconnecthere.com
phone number, and Asterisk answers (this part is accomplished). At this
point, the sound of the incoming SIP call is made available on the
console (how is this configured?). Helix Producer picks up the sound
from the console (which device would it listen to) and streams out to
the Helix server.

Thanks,

Marcus

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 21:52, Marcus Adolfsson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am working on a project for a client of mine, that involves streaming
> an incoming phone call. I have a lot of experience with Linux, but
> something that I have never attempted is using sound under Linux, as all
> my machines have been servers.
> 
> Here is the plan, is it doable?
> 
> The client (a minor league baseball team) calls in to a iconnecthere.com
> phone number, and Asterisk answers (this part is accomplished). At this
> point, the sound of the incoming SIP call is made available on the
> console (how is this configured?). Helix Producer picks up the sound
> from the console (which device would it listen to) and streams out to
> the Helix server.
With as much as I like asterisk and think it is the best thing out
there, you are going the wrong way on this. Wouldn't this be a better
app to put on a cheap laptop or a decent palmtop. With a SMC firewall
that can use a modem so you can do data calls over a wireless link. This
would allow you to do the digitization and compression on site and not
loose quality in the least. You can still use a free dialup to provide
the stream out. Of course if they are willing to pay for the
iconnecthere account, they could purchase a dialup account with 800
number access so there is no configuration changes from place to place. 

-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>