Hello,
One of our customers wants to play MP3 files on IP Phone speakers. I think this could be possible with the multicast paging feature, but I cannot find any Windows software that multicasts MP3 files from PCs to IP Phones.
Do you have any suggestions for this?
I appreciate any help you can provide.
On Sunday 15 September 2024 at 21:33:31, emre via Asterisk Community wrote:
One of our customers wants to play MP3 files on IP Phone speakers.
This works well; I have done it on more than one installation.
I think this could be possible with the multicast paging feature,
I’ve never used multicast, but Asterisk’s paging facility does this nicely.
but I cannot find any Windows software
What does Windows have to do with this? Asterisk does not run on Windows.
that multicasts MP3 files from PCs to IP Phones. Do you have any suggestions
for this?
Play the mp3 files from the Linux server running Asterisk.
Antony.
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Phones do not use MP3 as one of their codecs, and the codec choices tend to have reduced audio bandwidth, and/or are optimised for speech only.
Asterisk will set up media to the unicast address provided by the phone. If there are multiple phones, the call will be set up as multiple unicast streams and there will need to be a conference bridge (paging sets up conference bridge).
This has been multiposted at Multicast Paging Software for MP3g - General Help - FreePBX Community Forums