Icecast - Mar 2005 - Streaming Council Debate on Software Patents via Cell Phone?

I'm looking for a solution to provide a live stream of the debate on
Sofware Patents in Monday's EU Council of Ministers [1].  Here's what
I've in
mind:

* Council --> mobile phone --> software answering machine --> Internet
  server

* Council --> mobile phone --> VOIP --> Internet server

Has anyone ever streamed something via a cell phone? How would you
realize such a setup?

I may be asking for too much, but, perhaps, someone could provide a
readily configured solution where all that's left to do on our [2] part
is calling up a certain number with the cell phone?  If so, please drop
me a note.

[1] http://wiki.ffii.org/Dkparl050304En

[2] http://www.ffii.org

-- 
Felix E. Klee

There are a couple of ways to do this.  Both assume the mobile phone has 
Internet connectivity.

The standards-based method is to use 3GP RTSP/RTP LATM streams and 
AAC/HE-AAC/aacPlus, which is built into several mobile devices already on 
several different mobile device platforms.  This would involve using the 
appropriate encoder such as ORBAN Opticodec-PC and Darwin Streaming Server.

http://www.orban.com/orban/products/stream/1010_overview.html

The second way to do this, and I have currently been testing, is to use an 
Icecast2 server with an encoder of your choice and BetaPlayer, which is 
available for several different WindowsCE mobile devices, and supports 
several different codecs including OggVorbis and AAC/HE-AAC.  Testing has 
revealed that AAC/HE-AAC streaming works fine, but there is lots of audio 
skipping with OggVorbis streams.

http://betaplayer.corecodec.org/

I have been testing with a Verizon XV6600 EVDO device on the U.S. Verizon 
CDMA Network.

-greg.





At 10:45 2005-03-05, Felix E. Klee wrote:
>I'm looking for a solution to provide a live stream of the debate on
>Sofware Patents in Monday's EU Council of Ministers [1].  Here's
what I've in
>mind:
>
>* Council --> mobile phone --> software answering machine -->
Internet
>   server
>
>* Council --> mobile phone --> VOIP --> Internet server
>
>Has anyone ever streamed something via a cell phone? How would you
>realize such a setup?
>
>I may be asking for too much, but, perhaps, someone could provide a
>readily configured solution where all that's left to do on our [2] part
>is calling up a certain number with the cell phone?  If so, please drop
>me a note.
>
>[1] http://wiki.ffii.org/Dkparl050304En
>
>[2] http://www.ffii.org
>
>--
>Felix E. Klee
>_______________________________________________
>Icecast mailing list
>Icecast@xiph.org
>http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast

__________________________________________________________________________
Greg J. Ogonowski
VP Product Development
ORBAN / CRL, Inc.
1525 Alvarado St.
San Leandro, CA  94577  USA
TEL +1 510 351-3500
FAX +1 510 351-0500
greg@orban.com
http://www.orban.com

Felix E. Klee wrote:
> I'm looking for a solution to provide a live stream of the debate on
> Sofware Patents in Monday's EU Council of Ministers [1].  Here's
what I've in
> mind:
> * Council --> mobile phone --> software answering machine -->
Internet
>  server
You could use asterisk with its Ices module to do this.  Simply call into 
the Asterisk exchange and have Ices configured to stream to an Icecast 
server.

In fact, I know someone in the United States with this configured already, 
though I'm guessing you'd prefer to call  someone in Europe.

Geoff.