asterisk users - Feb 2012 - [asterisk-dev] How to play audio file in background in dialplan?

Hi

I have a task. While serving incoming call I should do some longtime
task(consumes more than few tens of seconds). So I decided to turn on
background music in order to entertain caller. `core show
applications` showed me 3 potential candidates: Background, Playback
and StartMusicOnHold. Unfortunately, all of them does not meet my
requirements:
1. Background and Playback block execution of dialplan.
2. StartMusicOnHold I cannot say which file it should play. Only
class, which is inpossible for me because of file to play is of
dynamically generated content with runtime obtained name, and I cannot
predict and configure all possible pairs of file-name/class-name.(And
don't want to use realtime to link class-name and file-name on fly).
Any ideas?



regards, Yaroslav

Assuming your longtime task is in an AGI, you could do this:
<AGI>
Print STDOUT "SET MUSIC ON HOLD DEFAULT\n"
.. agi logic ..
.. end of agi logic ..
Print STDOUT "SET MUSIC ON HOLD OFF\n"


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Hi

I have a task. While serving incoming call I should do some longtime
task(consumes more than few tens of seconds). So I decided to turn on
background music in order to entertain caller. `core show applications`
showed me 3 potential candidates: Background, Playback and StartMusicOnHold.
Unfortunately, all of them does not meet my
requirements:
1. Background and Playback block execution of dialplan.
2. StartMusicOnHold I cannot say which file it should play. Only class,
which is inpossible for me because of file to play is of dynamically
generated content with runtime obtained name, and I cannot predict and
configure all possible pairs of file-name/class-name.(And don't want to use
realtime to link class-name and file-name on fly).
Any ideas?



regards, Yaroslav

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On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Yaroslav Panych wrote:
> I have a task. While serving incoming call I should do some longtime
> task(consumes more than few tens of seconds). So I decided to turn on
> background music in order to entertain caller.
Do your processing in an AGI. Before you get into your 'longtime task' 
create another thread to play your file.

When you finish your 'longtime task' join the background thread.

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In my PERL AGI I use
- print STDOUT "SET MUSIC ON HOLD DEFAULT\n";
- print STDOUT "SET MUSIC ON HOLD OFF\n";

Ignore the "-" - stupid outlook needs them.

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2012/2/3 Danny Nicholas <danny at debsinc.com>:
> <start music>
> Fork or shell task 1
> Fork or shell task 2
> <stop music>
What exactly commands I should invoke in AGI instead of <start music> and
<stop music> ?
STREAM FILE returns only after file ends, this is not what I want.

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On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Yaroslav Panych wrote:
> It should be stopped only after 
> DO-SOME-ACTION-BASED-ON-PREVIOUS-CALL-RETURN-CODE completes. It is 
> actually my longtime operation.
BTW, we still have NFC what 
DO-SOME-ACTION-BASED-ON-PREVIOUS-CALL-RETURN-CODE does.

More details may yield better suggestions.

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