"Legs" wrote in message ...
wrote:
I would like to set up at my house a scanner receiver so that my
elderly dad can listen via internet (just like all the other streaming
scanner audio sites) to the broadcasts.

Could someone please advise what equipment I need to do this and how?
I have the scanner receiver, the Windows XP home computer, and
broadband connection.

Thanks alot!


Fairly simple - in addition to your computer and scanner, an audio connecting lead from scanner to audio (line) input on your
computer.

A program to do the streaming can be found at :-

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...r/default.aspx

A little bit of head scratching to get it set up, may help to read instructions here.

If you use a router to connect to the interweb, you may have to open a port to allow the streaming audio, IP stream through. You
get to set which port to use in the encoder. You may also have to let your firewall know what's going on here too.

Once set up, the audio stream can be listened to with Windows Media Player. Go to - Sync File Open URL. The URL will be :-

http://your_IP_address:Your_port_number.

note, there is a full colon - : - between your IP address, and the port you are using for streaming.

If you have more than one computer set up as a local LAN, you can check that it is working locally before committing to the net.
If you do this, you will no doubt notice maybe a one or so second delay in the audio coming out of the 'decoding' computer.

have fun.

this is really good info (thanks), but I've run into a problem and you may know the answer.
I've got several computers here at home on a network and I've managed to get a stream going from one computer (using WME9) and I'm
picking it up in WMP9 on another, problem is for a computer outside my LAN (ie a computer on the other side of my router) the IP
addresses I'm using won't work because I'm behind a router. The IP address on the PC streaming out (eg xx.xx.xx.xx) is behind
another IP address (yy.yy.yy.yy) which is my router on the internet.
How do I configure the address for someone outside to get my stream?