On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Matthew Boehm wrote: > Our conference hosting provider was able to stream our calls to the > web so that lessened the number of calls into the bridge. I'd like > to accomplish the same thing with Asterisk. > > I got Icecast and app_ices() up and working fine, streaming the > conference, but I ran into three serious issues: > 1. icecast only supports OGG/Vorbis and neither iTunes nor WMP can > play that format natively.
We frequently stream meetme conferences in mp3. The key was a helpful comment on the voip-info wiki. See this link: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page_id=991&comments_page=1#comm ent_41349. > 2. A considerable delay of close to 45 seconds over the stream There is always a bit of delay when streaming audio from asterisk or any other source since both the sever client are doing some buffering. Not sure if there is a way to reduce this. > 3. Every x seconds, it sounded like a packet or two of speech was > being dropped even though VLC reported no packet loss We've not had that problem with the mp3 streams we do. -Evan _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
