On a whim, amidst writing this book, I decided to broadcast what my police/fire
scanner hears. I enjoy listening to the somewhat animated dispatchers of the Dallas
Fire Department (a routine ???Let ??™em roll, let ??™em roll, Engine 57, Truck 24, Battalion
16??¦??? or an early morning wakeup ???Out of bed sleepy-heads something??™s burning??¦???
brings back memories of my days as a volunteer in Texas) which made me decide
to share some of the public-safety communications in and around Silicon Valley,
California??”not necessarily exciting, but I could fill a void since I could find no one
else doing it. I got through with the project and (whack on forehead??¦) realized, ???Hey!
Something new for the book!??? So here it is, a project that shows you how to stream
your own content.
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These steps are applicable to scanners (see Figure 15-1), MP3 players, a simple
microphone attached to your PC??”any external source of audio content or digital content
stored on your PC. You may have to get a little creative with some audio cables
and connectors, but after a quick software download and installation, in just a few
minutes, what you hear can be heard by millions.
Step 1: Install Windows Media Encoder
The heart of this project is Microsoft??™s free streaming-media program, Windows
Media Encoder (WME). WME is a small but robust piece of software that can serve up
on-demand content to Windows Media Player client programs, or it can push audio
and video to a streaming media server that sends the program material out to client
computers.
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