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Windows Server Forum / Windows Media Server / September 2007Live output to soundcard on server?
G'Day! I've looked through the docs and can't seem to find what I'm after - sorry if this is a stupid question! I'd like to be able to have whatever is currently streaming played via a soundcard on the server so that I can have the on-hold music of our phone system in sync with the streaming audio. Is this possible? I know I could in theory fire up a media player on the server and connect to the stream on localhost, but I need to be able to rely on this running without anybody logged in. >G'Day! > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >localhost, but I need to be able to rely on this running without anybody >logged in. I can't think if an obvious way to do that on the server or on any client PC, without media player running full time. It would require as you said the player to keep playing after logout (i.e. as a system service) Instead, see if your phone system has Line-In analog connections. You could pick up a used Roku soundbridge for $100 or so, then as long as you stick to WMA standard (WMA9 not WMA voice) and enable HTTP streaming on the server, you could leave the Roku running all the time, feeding the decoded analog audio back into the phone inputs. See here for more details on this : http://www.rokulabs.com/products_soundbridge.php and 'Why will the WMA Station not play?' for specs on stream reception http://www.rokulabs.com/products_soundbridge_internet.php HTH Cheers - Neil ------------------------------------------------ Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs Thankyou for the response! Spending more on hardware won't make me any friends (I've already gone a little, maybe a lot over budget..), I guess my next challenge will be to find some sort of audio software that runs as a service. If anybody has any recommendations, I'm all ears! > I can't think if an obvious way to do that on the server or on any > client PC, without media player running full time. It would require as [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007 > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs |
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