asterisk users - Jan 2004 - Voicemail to email file sizes

I am wondering what is the best way to send the smallest files with the vm to
emai l integration? I am not sure what order the three lines of the format
command take, so I have just tried trial and error swapping. I think when set to
"gsm" I get the smallest sizes. I can get my Windows Media player to
play at
least part of the file (get missing codec message from Realplayer), but get a
format error at the end. What is the recommended route? If trying to use gsm is
there a way to change the mime type to an appropriate value for gsm files? Is
there a file extension convention for gsm files if I want to try some manual
test on my computer before tackling a mimetype change?

Thanks for any help you can offer.
-- 
Jonathan Moore
Director of Technology
Winfield Public Schools
Office 620.221.5100
Fax 620.221.0508





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On Tuesday 06 January 2004 14:25, Jonathan Moore wrote:
> I am wondering what is the best way to send the smallest files with
> the vm to emai l integration? I am not sure what order the three
> lines of the format command take, so I have just tried trial and
> error swapping. I think when set to "gsm" I get the smallest
sizes.
> I can get my Windows Media player to play at least part of the file
> (get missing codec message from Realplayer), but get a format error
> at the end. What is the recommended route? If trying to use gsm is
> there a way to change the mime type to an appropriate value for gsm
> files? Is there a file extension convention for gsm files if I want
> to try some manual test on my computer before tackling a mimetype
> change?
Voicemail are saved on the server in all format specified in
voicemail.conf, but only the first one is sent with the email.  If
you're using Windows on your email clients, I'd suggest that you
go with WAV (and yes, case matters), as that format is a compressed
sound format recognized by Microsoft (aka MSGSM, WAV49).

-Tilghman

> I can get my Windows Media player to play at
> least part of the file (get missing codec message from Realplayer), but
get a
> format error at the end.
If you are on a windows machine, you could try using 1-Step Audio Publisher
(get it from http://www.cam.org/~noelbou/1s_main.html). You could probably
set up your * box to email the VM via some AGI script or an hourly cron job,
and just use the 1-step application to listen to the voicemail.

The app can also be used to convert from WAV to GSM and vice versa. it
doesn't have a batch conversion facility though, so file conversions can
only be done one at a time.

Faiz

i have been working with the retrieve_sip_conf_from_mysql.pl file and i have
set everything as required. but when i run this script i am continuously
getting the "no results" in my screen   and the file written by this
script
has only first result although i have many in my database. this is the part
of this script.

     my @resSet = @{$result};
        print $#resSet;
        if ( $#resSet == -1 ) {
                print "no results\n";
                exit;
        }

can any one tell me what is happening? and get rid of this error?

for those who have no clue.. this file is in the /usr/src/asterisk
directory... (asterisk source diretory.)

thanks,
chandra