Re: [asterisk-users] streaming meetme conference
Evan, Thanks for the link to the comments page. I was able to get ezstream to compile and created the ices command that piped the stdin audio from the conference room to lame then send it to icecast via ezstream. Problem is, all you hear is static. I just have 1 member in the conference room, the streamer, so MoH is playing. All I hear on the stream is pure static. How can I be sure that I'm not feeding lame something it can't understand? I'm sure lame can't understand g729 or alaw or something else I may have on. How do I make sure I'm sending it pcm? Thanks, Matthew -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users- boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Ivan Stepaniuk Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 6:54 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] streaming meetme conference Boehm, Matthew wrote: 1. icecast only supports OGG/Vorbis and neither iTunes nor WMP can play that format natively. AFAIK, icecast also supports mp3 streaming too, you could create an m3u playlist with the stream path, that would be enough to trigger your users' WMP. You could also embed the WMP object (I hate that so much!). My two (sightly off-topic) cents. -- Ivan Stepaniuk Alba Fotónica S.L. www.albafotonica.com ___ -- 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
Re: [asterisk-users] streaming meetme conference
You can check the read/write format of the channel from the CLI. Do a 'show channels' to see the channel name of the channel in your meetme. Then 'show channel xxx' using the channel id from first step. It will show you the read and write formats for the channel. My channel is a Local channel from a call file and it always shows 'slin' for format. -Evan -Original Message- From: Boehm, Matthew [mailto:mbo...@theplanet.com] Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:27 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Cc: Ivan Stepaniuk; Evan P. Hall Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] streaming meetme conference Evan, Thanks for the link to the comments page. I was able to get ezstream to compile and created the ices command that piped the stdin audio from the conference room to lame then send it to icecast via ezstream. Problem is, all you hear is static. I just have 1 member in the conference room, the streamer, so MoH is playing. All I hear on the stream is pure static. How can I be sure that I'm not feeding lame something it can't understand? I'm sure lame can't understand g729 or alaw or something else I may have on. How do I make sure I'm sending it pcm? Thanks, Matthew -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users- boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Ivan Stepaniuk Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 6:54 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] streaming meetme conference Boehm, Matthew wrote: 1. icecast only supports OGG/Vorbis and neither iTunes nor WMP can play that format natively. AFAIK, icecast also supports mp3 streaming too, you could create an m3u playlist with the stream path, that would be enough to trigger your users' WMP. You could also embed the WMP object (I hate that so much!). My two (sightly off-topic) cents. -- Ivan Stepaniuk Alba Fotónica S.L. www.albafotonica.com ___ -- 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
[asterisk-users] streaming meetme conference
Hello, Our 500+ company is slowly moving away from our hosted conferencing solution to one I built a few weeks ago with Asterisk and MeetMe. When our Q3 conference call comes around, we will have the need to have approximately 300-400 users in this call. Obviously, all would be 'listen only' mode and only 1 or 2 two would be speaking as marked/admin users. 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. 2. A considerable delay of close to 45 seconds over the stream 3. Every x seconds, it sounded like a packet or two of speech was being dropped even though VLC reported no packet loss My work computer and the asterisk server are on the same network so network latency isn't the issue for #2 and #3. Has anyone successfully setup meetme streaming in the manner I have described? Were you able to stream WAV or MP3? Did you experience the 45 second delay? Cheers and T.I.A! -Matthew ___ -- 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
Re: [asterisk-users] streaming meetme conference
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=991comments_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
Re: [asterisk-users] streaming meetme conference
Boehm, Matthew wrote: 1. icecast only supports OGG/Vorbis and neither iTunes nor WMP can play that format natively. AFAIK, icecast also supports mp3 streaming too, you could create an m3u playlist with the stream path, that would be enough to trigger your users' WMP. You could also embed the WMP object (I hate that so much!). My two (sightly off-topic) cents. -- Ivan Stepaniuk Alba Fotónica S.L. www.albafotonica.com ___ -- 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
