asterisk users - May 2008 - playing .gsm sounds through a web browser

I have a lot of recordings from asterisk in a .gsm format. I would like 
to play these files from a web browser (IE, firefox and opera)

What do I need to do in order to achieve this goal ?

Thanks

Julian

Apple Quicktime or WavePad on Windows and Mac.

As for Linux, your options are zgsmplay or SoX unless you can get
Quicktime to work.

MATT---


On 5/15/08, Julian Lyndon-Smith <asterisk at dotr.com>
wrote:
> I have a lot of recordings from asterisk in a .gsm format. I would like
>  to play these files from a web browser (IE, firefox and opera)
>
>  What do I need to do in order to achieve this goal ?
>
>  Thanks
>
>  Julian
>
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A posting to the correct mailing list?

Or at least a post with the details of the issue? What OS? Can you
play these same .gsm files in any media player your OS might have?

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Julian Lyndon-Smith <asterisk at
dotr.com> wrote:
> I have a lot of recordings from asterisk in a .gsm format. I would like
> to play these files from a web browser (IE, firefox and opera)
>
> What do I need to do in order to achieve this goal ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Julian
>
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On Thursday 15 May 2008 18:26:15 Julian Lyndon-Smith
wrote:
> I have a lot of recordings from asterisk in a .gsm format. I would like
> to play these files from a web browser (IE, firefox and opera)
>
> What do I need to do in order to achieve this goal ?
Allegedly, quicktime can play these files.  I have not tested this.

-- 
Tilghman

No, no, no.

Don't try to play them directly as gsm files. Convert them to wav on
the fly, when demanded by the user from the webpage. Have a php, or
perl, or whatever script call sox, and push the wav to the user. sox
runs so fast that you can do the conversion on-demand. You can decide
what to do with the wav file afterward. Delete it immediately, cache
it, whatever. Don't force the users to know anything they don't
already know. There are a lot of media players that can handle a wav
file.

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Julian Lyndon-Smith <asterisk at
dotr.com> wrote:
> I have a lot of recordings from asterisk in a .gsm format. I would like
> to play these files from a web browser (IE, firefox and opera)
>
> What do I need to do in order to achieve this goal ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Julian
>
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Hint:
core show file formats

If you specify your recording format as "WAV" you will get a gsm file
mangled to play in most browsers.

You can convert your existing files using SOX.

See http://www.callbandit.com/ for a sample gsm encoded WAV file.
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I don't want to add to the list of supported players - my suggestion is to  
do the recordings as WAV, so you get the same quality and compression  
results but it's playable natively on any Windows box.
Another choice to get this issue solved, if you have a system  that is not  
24/7 in use, why not running a nightly job to do recoding to voice-rate  
MP3? playable anywhere, good quality, small footprint.
I have a makefile somewhere to do that, even starting from .gsm.... I  
think it's this one: http://astrecipes.net/index.php?n=294
l.


On Fri, 16 May 2008 01:26:15 +0200, Julian Lyndon-Smith  
<asterisk at dotr.com> wrote:
> I have a lot of recordings from asterisk in a .gsm format. I would like
> to play these files from a web browser (IE, firefox and opera)
>
> What do I need to do in order to achieve this goal ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Julian
>


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On 16 May 2008, at 00:26, Julian Lyndon-Smith wrote:
> I have a lot of recordings from asterisk in a .gsm format. I would  
> like
> to play these files from a web browser (IE, firefox and opera)
>
> What do I need to do in order to achieve this goal ?
>
Sorry to catch up late on this, but I have a tiny Java Applet that  
does this.
demo:
http://www.westhawk.co.uk/software/playGSM/PlayGSM.html

Source code included:
http://www.westhawk.co.uk/software/playGSM/PlayGSM.jar

Tim.