asterisk users - Jul 2005 - Streaming MP3's from Asterisk with Ices

I am trying to stream an mp3 file from an Asterisk meetme conference.

Ices and Icecast are streaming mp3 files on their own. 

I have looked at the info on the wiki and the various readme files.

It appears you need to use Ices2 to work with the confirguration file
that Asterisk gives you, but it calls Ices.  Ices2 appears to only
stream ogg files and i would like to stream an mp3 file.

Being that my end goal is to stream an mp3 file any ideas on how this
should be configured.

thanks,

Geoff

As you mentioned, you'll need to use Ices in order to stream MP3s, I
believe Ices2 is only for OGG. Ices is fairly easy to setup, however.
Once you have the streaming working properly, you can then hook any
extension you like into the stream by using the "mp3player"
application.
You'll also need to install mp3 support for asterisk in order for this
to work. You can do this by running "make mpg123" from the Asterisk
source directory.

Once this is setup, you can setup the stream on an extension like so: 

exten => 100,1,MP3Player(http://64.236.34.196:80/stream/1074)

Now, after reloading Asterisk, you should be able to hear the stream on
extension 100.

Enjoy!

On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 17:44 -0700, Geoff Karl wrote:
> I am trying to stream an mp3 file from an Asterisk meetme conference.
> 
> Ices and Icecast are streaming mp3 files on their own. 
> 
> I have looked at the info on the wiki and the various readme files.
> 
> It appears you need to use Ices2 to work with the confirguration file
> that Asterisk gives you, but it calls Ices.  Ices2 appears to only
> stream ogg files and i would like to stream an mp3 file.
> 
> Being that my end goal is to stream an mp3 file any ideas on how this
> should be configured.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Geoff
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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.

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