[PD] Pd + asterisk?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 2, 2007, at 8:19 PM, Russell Bryant wrote:

> drh270 wrote:
>> This sounds great!
>
> Cool, thanks for the interest.  :)
>
>> Chris, in an earlier post mentioned using OSC, he was using a Python
>> script, so communicating via OSC may be a starting point.
>
> Yeah, I saw that.  Thanks for bringing up OSC again.  The trick is  
> going to be
> to have a real-time interface that provides both media and call  
> signaling
> access.  I could put together a native interface in Asterisk for  
> OSC so that
> digit presses could be sent out as OSC messages.  Then, optionally,  
> at the same
> time, the audio could be flowing in and out of Pd, as well.

OSC sounds like a good interface for the messaging since it's not too  
complicated and is pretty well supported.  One thing that might be  
nice to have in the Asterisk OSC is the time-tagged messages.  Most  
OSC implementations ignore that part of it, unfortunately, but I  
think it could be useful to have when syncing different parts, like  
if one program was processing audio and another handling video.

.hc

>
>> Seems to me that perhaps a SIP soft phone may be trickier because rtp
>> audio comes in on many ports, what about a Pd iax2 phone object and
>> have it listen to the audio on port 4569?
>
> SIP is definitely much more complicated than IAX2, and you won't  
> see me writing
> a SIP interface.  I would definitely go for IAX2.  However, I would  
> say that
> it's not quite for the reason that you mentioned.  For RTP with  
> SIP, ou always
> know what port the audio is going to come in on, because you're in  
> charge of
> picking it.
>
> One issue that is on my mind, is scalability.  It's clear to me how  
> I could
> implement a Pd patch that could process 1, 2, 3, ... calls, but it  
> is not yet
> clear to me how it could support any number N calls, up to what the  
> network and
> processing power can support.  However, it may be just be that my  
> Pd knowledge
> is still very lacking.  :)
>
>> Is it possible to run Pd and Asterisk on the same machine? Like  
>> Icecast?
>
> Sure.  There should be no problems with that.
>
> --
> Russell Bryant
>
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