Winsock to Server to Telco

anyone seen or played with any code to connect to a remote server, which then allows you to make telephone calls from that PC ..

I know the winsock part, but not sure if it is possible to even stream audio back and forth with winsock .. and then there is the modem issue .. ive looked at Tapi but that brings up the MS Phone Dialer which I dont want to do .. i want to bring up my own program when I connect to the server .. just so they know im making a call ..

any ideas ..?
Basically I dont have a land line at my place .. i have a cell and its costing alot, and VOIP is out of the question as that costs still . and is illegal in our country .. at least VOIP in the term they see it as like vonage and skype ..

Thanks

You can definitely stream audio - see any of the thousands of audio streams on the internet. You'll need 2 completely separate streams - one going each way. Then you'll need some hardware to connect the phone line audio to the remote computer - a voice modem may do, but there are devices specifically designed to just connect phone line audio to computers, or you could use a transformer and a relay controlled by a one bit port on the remote computer. (A bit on the parallel port would work.)

Look at http://www.webdingers.com/scanner.html for (free) software to create audio streams. (You won't need Metadata Generator.) You'd need your programs at both ends to a) start and end the remote end streams (starting the local end at the same time, of course) and b) dial and hang up the phone.

There may be other ways of implementing a remote voice phone line, but I think this would work.

Thanks .. didnt quite understand that link, had an exe to download .. anyway looking at Wavestream now for that part ..

Another question .. anyone ever deal with streaming video from a server to a client ..? I have Avi files on the server, just want to stream them back to the client .. even if i need to convert them first ..

thanks
Rory

Winamp can stream video, I believe.

finally found something that works :)
check this link ..
http://www.openh323.org/

and simpler for VB ..
http://www.geocities.com/rddamian/getvb.html