asterisk users - Feb 2007 - Asterisk -> Streaming Audio Bridge

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?

Thanks

Eric

Have you looked at ICEcast? http://www.icecast.org/index.php


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From: "Eric Germann" <ekgermann@cctec.com>
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Subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk -> Streaming Audio Bridge

> 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?
>
> Thanks
>
> Eric
>
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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

www.mexuar.net
www.westhawk.co.uk/

I used mpg123 to stream air traffic control as a MOH class but I also
found it didn't always work with the shoutcast servers. 

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Germann
Sent: 27 February 2007 02:17
To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
Subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk -> Streaming Audio Bridge

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?

Thanks

Eric

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