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! > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > Check out the new Asterisk community forum at: > https://community.asterisk.org/ > > New to Asterisk? Start here: > https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Getting+Started > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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