asterisk users - Oct 2003 - Useful patch in the bugtracker: streaming MOH

So, Tilghman has put a particularly useful patch in the bugtracker: 
streaming music-on-hold is now supported.  You can now specify .mp3 
streams to be played back as MOH in the various places where MOH is 
used.  Hopefully, Mark will install into the main CVS tree shortly.

http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000413

This allows you to use the very sophisticated mp3 streaming audio 
tools that exist for broadcast (Open Source as well as commercial) to 
build your own mini-stations, complete with advertisements, annoying 
product placements, and insipid corporate banter while you have 
people trapped in a hold queue, helpless and unable to do anything 
but listen to the drivel that you wish to push into their ears.

Viva Asterisk!

JT

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 02:31, John Todd wrote:
> So, Tilghman has put a particularly useful patch in the bugtracker: 
> streaming music-on-hold is now supported.  You can now specify .mp3 
> streams to be played back as MOH in the various places where MOH is 
> used.  Hopefully, Mark will install into the main CVS tree shortly.
> 
> http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000413
> 
> This allows you to use the very sophisticated mp3 streaming audio 
> tools that exist for broadcast (Open Source as well as commercial) to 
> build your own mini-stations, complete with advertisements, annoying 
> product placements, and insipid corporate banter while you have 
> people trapped in a hold queue, helpless and unable to do anything 
> but listen to the drivel that you wish to push into their ears.
Not to mention that this now lets people hook up a outside sound source
via the soundcard and use tools to stream that input appropriately. This
was requested by those who wanted to stream a local radio station. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>

Streaming MOH is a great improvement; has anyone considered a streaming
media channel? I'm specifically thinking of the auctions (Dovebid) and the
investor conference calls that are simultaneously streamed via RealAudio or
Shoutcast. There are plenty of MP3 streaming servers to use, and Real's
Helix DNA project <URL:http://www.helixcommunity.org/> could theoretically
be integrated.

I suppose either would be possible if a separate streaming server took the
audio output of chan_oss, but I thought I'd wonder aloud about a
hypothetical chan_mp3stream or chan_helix. I've seen a couple real.com
addresses lately on the list; any asterisk integration happening, guys?

rm
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