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Hello, I need to play some musiconhold content starting at a random duration from the start. Thanks to mode=custom option and either madplay or mpg123 programs, I could successfully get what I was after on a Debian Wheezy system. Now I realized sox version on my target system (Debian Squeeze) cannot convert to MP3 format. So I'm looking after workarounds. 0. I've read many mpg123 or

Hi Folks, I'm currently trying to configure musiconhold (on a asterisk-1.4.17) for replaying a live mp3-stream (Icecast2). after reading the related material on voip-info and several other pages, I've successfully tried out mpg132, madplay and mplayer to pipe a stream into moh. however, there is one major problem involving some kind of buffer-issue. let me try to explain this problem

Is it true that asterisk 1.2.6 does not use mpg123? I just installed asterisk 1.2.6 and while I do have music on hold (through format_mp3?) I do not have an mpg123 process running. I seem to be having serious audio issues when going through one of my providers (and just through that provider) when using mp3 for hold music, however when using wav files it is fine. The processor is only at about

should I use mpg123 with asterisk 1.2.7 or should i use the native player asterisk has? the target machine will receive heavy load. also, has anyone succedded in compiling mpg123 in a dual core pentium with centos 4.3 ? -- ------------------------------------------- Erick Perez Linux User 376588 http://counter.li.org/ (Get counted!!!) Panama, Republic of Panama

Hullo :) I'm using CVS-04/23/04-23 from the stable 1.0 branch on kernel 2.6 - since I have no Digium h/w, I've just managed to get the zaprtc module to compile and run, so I thought the best way to test it would be via MoH. The MP3Player application works great .. exten => 6901,1,Answer exten => 6901,2,MP3Player(http://127.0.0.1:85/ES/28) This will play callers BBC Radio 4 from

When I configured this server, I did not do the make mpg123 option. Months later, I read about it and did it, as the client was asking about MOH. About a week later the server crashed, which it never has before. I believe mpg123 have a memory leak. What's the best way to remove it, and is there an alternative that is stable? -- Chris Mason NetConcepts (264) 497-5670 Fax: (264) 497-8463

Hey all, I have read on voip-info.org that to configure MoH asterisk requires the use of mpg123. I have installed mpg123 and restarted asterisk. But, when i put a call on hold i get this error: May 25 14:13:03 WARNING[1872]: res_musiconhold.c:865 local_ast_moh_start: No class: default Can you help, Thanks yusuf

When I start * I get 6 mpg123 processes start as well. Is this normal? Often after a couple of days these mpg123 processes start to consume cpu and I have to kill them off. I do not have a sound card in the server and I have noload => chan_oss.so Simon

Sorry, i also tried this: exten => 6000,1,Answer exten => 6000,2,MusicOnHold(default) and i got this result: *CLI> -- Executing Answer("SIP/2391-8cdd", "") in new stack -- Executing MusicOnHold("SIP/2391-8cdd", "default") in new stack Jun 29 19:33:47 WARNING[1616]: res_musiconhold.c:354 moh0_exec: Unable to start music on hold (class

This is my musiconhold.conf and my folder: root@voip:/etc/asterisk# less musiconhold.conf [classes] default => quietmp3:/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3 ;loud => mp3:/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3 ;random => mp3:/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3,-z ;unbuffered => mp3nb:/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3 ;quietunbuf => quietmp3nb:/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3 ; Note that the custom mode cannot handle escaped parameters

Does anybody have a good source for hold music? I can see a number of companies on the web that sell royalty-free MOH, but they don't all provide samples. The customer service desk has requested "calming, not sleeping, but calming" and "this is a high-tech company, so make it 'techie' [sic]". Thanks, --Ernest

You could try to use the native mp3 support for MOH if you really want mp3 support. It is a lot better than using mpg123 IMHO. mpg123 kept doing nasty things to my system :) See http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20config%20musicon hold.conf there is a section about the native support. Guillaume > -----Original Message----- > From: Stefan Gofferje

Hi there, After scratching my head for days on why there is horrible white noise in musiconhold, I finally found out that the latest emerge version of mpg123: 0.59s-r2 is not working well with asterisk. However, if you get the latest source from mpg123.de mpg123-pre0.59s.tar.gz. Then it works wonderfully. Just a heads up for the Gentoo admin David

Hi, KMail crashed because I saved too many asterisk-users messages ... now I have to ask directly, instead of searching in my private archive :) Here's the problem: I'm using MusicOnHold, running mpg123, but I notice that the processes don't die even after the user hangs up. They just sort of "freeze" and stop consuming cpu (I hope). Is there a way (within asterisk)

For whatever reason, the music on hold is extremely distorted and loud. It didn't used to be this way and I haven't changed anything, yet it persists. This is on all the channels we use (SIP, IAX2, Zap, ALSA). Can anyone help with this, or has anyone seen this? The mp3s play fine on any computer and haven't changed since they did work. Those wishing to hear for themselves, feel

Hi all, A long time ago I built an Asterisk system that plays IceCast streams via moh. extensions.conf: Exten => moh,1,Set(SIP_CODEC=ulaw) Exten => moh,2,Answer Exten => moh,3,MusicONHold(test_new) Exten => moh,4,Hangup musiconhold.conf ; test_new [test_new] mode=custom application=/etc/mystreams/test_new.sh test_new.sh #!/bin/bash wget -q -T 120 -O -

Is there any reason why there should ever be more than 1 instance of mpg123 running on a * server? I just did an 'uptime' and noticed all 3 of my loads where over 3.00. 'top' showed 8 mpg123 processes all processing the same 3 songs (our background music). I tried to kill one of them but another one spawned in its place. Any ideas? Thanks, Matthew

I have searching the forums here on how to get Music On Hold working and I have been able to get * to accept a command for MusicOnHold and for Meetme after loading the ztdummy module. I used the default config for /etc/zaptel.conf since I saw no guidance on this. My problem now is that when I activate MusicOnHold, the sample music file sounds very slow and distorted. My best guess is that it is

Hi On my FC3 box with asterisk 1.0.9....MusicOnHold is not working. It starts and stops immediately... An unknow option mono comes...from where it is originating.?? As there is nothing written in .conf file. Console output is below: I am using mpg123 version 0.59r. Although I am able to play music with mpg123 but why it is on No-cooperation movement against asterisk ? Need help..any

Steve, These are live streams of events so I can't simply rip the audio. As I mentioned at the end of my email putting in a sleep did help a bit however there are only so many streams Asterisk will grab nicely at once with out spiking the CPU. I also tinkered a bit with real time here is what I found: 1) If we have cachertclasses=no then Asterisk will only pull the stream if some one is