asterisk users - Jan 2005 - gsm/wav format not recognized in Background() application

Hardware I have

Old celeron 300a asus p2b motherboard
256 megs ram
X100p
Esoniq pci 128 "sound blaster"

Basicly I have created sox rec and arecord gsm and wav files for a basic 
start dial plan script and  it does not seem to recognize the files I 
created. 

I can substitute any default sound file in /var/lib/asterisk/sounds 
directory in place of my own custom Background(greeting) gsm file and it 
will work when the Answer application kicks in. When I insert my own 
sound files I hear nothing but a click. I can push in extentions and it 
will revert to voicemail as requird.

Here is some of my extension.conf file
[incoming]
exten => s,1,Wait,1
exten => s,2,Answer()
exten => s,3,NoOp(${CALLERID})
exten => s,4,Background(greeting1)
exten => t,1,Goto(s,4)
exten => 100,1,Dial(IAX2/100)
exten => 100,2,Voicemail(u100)
exten => 200,1,Voicemail(u200)

I have created a new greeting.gsm called greeting1.
I can play is fine when using sox play command but for unknown reasons 
not when run by asterisk. Any and all sound applications are not running 
at the moment to prevent any conflics.

I created the file as a wav file like   rec greeting1.wav -r 4000 vol 1

Then convert it with    sox greeting1.wav -r 8000 -c 1 greeting1.gsm 
resample -ql

I replay the gsm to test it. It sounds clear with some static.

Then these errors come up in CLI when dialing into my zap card:

 
NG[234]: format_wav.c:159 check_header: Unexpected freqency 4000
Jan 22 21:42:16 WARNING[234]: file.c:412 ast_filehelper: Unable to open 
fd on /var/lib/asterisk/sounds                         /greeting1.wav
Jan 22 21:42:16 WARNING[234]: file.c:790 ast_streamfile: Unable to open 
greeting1 (format unknown): No                          such file or 
directory
Jan 22 21:42:16 WARNING[234]: pbx.c:4959 pbx_builtin_background: 
ast_streamfile failed on Zap/1-1 for                          greeting1
Jan 22 21:42:26 WARNING[234]: format_wav.c:159 check_header: Unexpected 
freqency 4000
Jan 22 21:42:26 WARNING[234]: file.c:412 ast_filehelper: Unable to open 
fd on /var/lib/asterisk/sounds                         /greeting1.wav
Jan 22 21:42:26 WARNING[234]: file.c:790 ast_streamfile: Unable to open 
greeting1 (format unknown): No                          such file or 
directory
Jan 22 21:42:26 WARNING[234]: pbx.c:4959 pbx_builtin_background: 
ast_streamfile failed on Zap/1-1 for                          greeting1


So anyone might give me a idea what I may be doing wrong?

here is my lsmod if this will help


James





Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
snd-pcm-oss            37736   1 (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss          12504   0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
wcfxo                   8384   1
zaptel                175904   6 [wcfxo]
snd-ens1370             7780   2
snd-pcm                56072   0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-ens1370]
snd-timer              13604   0 [snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc          6328   0 [snd-ens1370 snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi            12740   0 [snd-ens1370]
snd-seq-device          3888   0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd-ak4531-codec        4824   0 [snd-ens1370]
snd                    30852   1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1370 
snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ak4531-codec]
3c59x                  25648   1
gameport                1420   0 [snd-ens1370]
soundcore               3396   6 [snd]
agpgart                43940   0 (unused)

james wrote:
> Jan 22 21:42:26 WARNING[234]: format_wav.c:159 check_header: Unexpected 
> freqency 4000
You might want to try encoding at 8000Hz instead of 4000Hz.

-- 
Cheers,

Matt Riddell
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