Thanks Dan - might have to scratch my head over that one for a while! The phrase "you make your own RTP server" has made me all twitchy ;)
Jonathan On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 07:21, Dan Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > I'd probably go down the external media route in the ARI now - you make > your own RTP server and provide your own RTP back to asterisk > > On Sun, 3 May 2020, 13:07 Jonathan H, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Way back in 2016 the only way to allow callers to listen in to a stream >> "at will" was to do the following: >> >> moh.conf >> >> [radio] >> mode=custom >> application=/usr/bin/mplayer https://example.com/stream.mp3 -quiet -ao >> pcm:file=/dev/stdout -af volume=5,resample=8000,channels=1,format=alaw >> >> extensions.conf >> >> exten => radio,1,Verbose(1, Entered radio context) >> same => n,Set(VOLUME(TX)=1) >> same => n,WaitExten(27006,m(radio)) >> same => n,Goto(#,1) >> >> It kind of works, but two problems here: >> It's pulling data 24x7, giving the radio host artificial stats - all >> rather needless as maybe one or two people might listen for 10 mins each in >> a day. >> And even though mplayer seems to stay up and running all the time, >> sometimes Asterisk will stop listening on that pipe and everything needs a >> restart (random, less than once a week). >> >> Is there a more modern/sensible way of achieving the same, just ensuring >> that stream plays if someone listens, isn't playing when no-one is >> listening, and listening can be exited with a specified key? >> >> Thanks! >> >
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