Frank Cox wrote: > I'm looking into costs and feasibility of moving a live feed from a FM radio > station from the station to a point that's past the usable range of their radio > signal. It's a rural location and Internet service is not available at the > station. If the destination was closer or their transmitter was more powerful, > I could avoid this step and just plug in a radio, but.... > > My best idea so far is to rent a dedicated phone line from the station to the > point where we need the feed, then get some kind of on-the-fly audio compressor > to hook up to the main board in the station, push it out over the phone line, > then decompress it at the destination. > > I'm pretty sure there is dedicated hardware to do the compression/decompression > (whatever they use to do those "radio remotes" from Sally's Sofa Sales without > sounding like they are broadcasting from the bottom of a rain barrel) and I'm > currently looking into that angle too, but I'm wondering if it would be > cheaper/easier/better to have something running on Linux at both ends of the > connection to handle the audio compression/decompression. Especially since I'm > planning to run a Centos server at the destination end for other aspects of > this project if we proceed with it. Can't you find a place that has both radio reception and internet service to park something like shoutcast? Or if you want canned hardware, I think slingbox has an audio-only mode - but maybe that's only in the windows/mac software players. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos