Greetings everyone, I was wondering if there was a way to change the codec that Asterisk uses when streaming via MulticastRTP. Or perhaps a way to transcode the multicast stream. In the CLI, when I have a multicast stream in progress, I am typing 'core show channel MulticastRTP/0x7f7........' to get lots of helpful information. I have noticed that when I do a MULTICAST page and send data from MP3Player, I get no sound on my speakers and get the following from 'core show channel PJSIP/xxx': NativeFormats: (slin)WriteFormat: slinReadFormat: slinWriteTranscode: No ReadTranscode: No I have noticed that when I do a UNICAST page and send data from MP3Player, everything works flawlessly and I get the following from 'core show channel MulticastRTP': NativeFormats: (ulaw)WriteFormat: slinReadFormat: slinWriteTranscode: Yes (slin at 8000)->(ulaw at 8000)ReadTranscode: Yes (ulaw at 8000)->(slin at 8000) The only thing that is changing is the following line in my extensions.conf file: ; For Multicast Pagingsame => n(next),Page(MulticastRTP/basic/239.1.1.2:6061,q) ; For Unicast Pagingsame => n(next),Page(PJSIP/107&PJSIP/108,ib(pjsip-auto-answer-header^addheader^1)|p}) Is there any way to get the MP3Player stream to transcode (as it does on the UNICAST stream) when I try to MULTICAST? Thanks for the help, --Matt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20150930/8daf1602/attachment.html>
Hi Matt Interesting problem! I'm hoping those with knowledge about the internal workings of the Page app and multicast will chime in, although it might pay to quote your version of Asterisk). I don't know enough to answer the question itself, but if it were me I would be inclined to just work around it by doing something like piping mp3player through sox before sending the data on to asterisk. I may be able to help you achieve that, so if that's good enough then please post more of the multicast page config from your extensions.conf. Pete On 1/10/2015, at 6:51 AM, Matthew Murphy <mrmdev at outlook.com> wrote:> Greetings everyone, > > I was wondering if there was a way to change the codec that Asterisk uses when streaming via MulticastRTP. Or perhaps a way to transcode the multicast stream. > [SNIP] > Is there any way to get the MP3Player stream to transcode (as it does on the UNICAST stream) when I try to MULTICAST?-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20151001/7f5f07f6/attachment.html>
On my Asterisk 11 system I have the following in extensions.ael for chan_sip. 8001 => { Set(SIP_CODEC=alaw); //Dial(MulticastRTP/linksys/224.168.168.168:34567/224.168.168.168:6061); Page(MulticastRTP/linksys/224.168.168.168:34567/224.168.168.168:6061,q,5); Hangup(); }; I believe in your case you need to set PJSIP_MEDIA_OFFER(ulaw) in a pre-dial handler prior to making the call. See https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Pre-dial+handlers+Specification. On 1/10/2015 1:51 AM, Matthew Murphy wrote:> Greetings everyone, > > I was wondering if there was a way to change the codec that Asterisk > uses when streaming via MulticastRTP. Or perhaps a way to transcode > the multicast stream. > > In the CLI, when I have a multicast stream in progress, I am typing > 'core show channel MulticastRTP/0x7f7........' to get lots of helpful > information. > > I have noticed that when I do a MULTICAST page and* send data from > MP3Player*, I get no sound on my speakers and get the following from > 'core show channel PJSIP/xxx': > > NativeFormats: (slin) > WriteFormat: slin > ReadFormat: slin > *WriteTranscode: No * > *ReadTranscode: No * > > I have noticed that when I do a UNICAST page and* send data from > MP3Player*, everything works flawlessly and I get the following from > 'core show channel MulticastRTP': > > NativeFormats: (ulaw) > WriteFormat: slin > ReadFormat: slin > *WriteTranscode: Yes (slin at 8000)->(ulaw at 8000)* > *ReadTranscode: Yes (ulaw at 8000)->(slin at 8000)* > > > The *only* thing that is changing is the following line in my > extensions.conf file: > > ; For Multicast Paging > same => n(next),Page(MulticastRTP/basic/239.1.1.2:6061,q) > > ; For Unicast Paging > same => > n(next),Page(PJSIP/107&PJSIP/108,ib(pjsip-auto-answer-header^addheader^1)|p}) > > > Is there any way to get the MP3Player stream to transcode (as it does > on the UNICAST stream) when I try to MULTICAST? > > Thanks for the help, > > --Matt > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20151001/69fe730d/attachment.html>
Larry and Pete, Thanks a bunch for jumping in and giving me some ideas! I am hoping to have something working soon with what you guys have given me. The end game for me is to be able to stream MP3s from a playlist. It appears like both solutions you guys have proposed may give me what I need. I will actually try both and let you know how it goes. --Matt From: lmoore at omninet.net.au To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 06:15:17 +0800 Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Change Asterisk MulticastRTP codec On my Asterisk 11 system I have the following in extensions.ael for chan_sip. 8001 => { Set(SIP_CODEC=alaw); //Dial(MulticastRTP/linksys/224.168.168.168:34567/224.168.168.168:6061); Page(MulticastRTP/linksys/224.168.168.168:34567/224.168.168.168:6061,q,5); Hangup(); }; I believe in your case you need to set PJSIP_MEDIA_OFFER(ulaw) in a pre-dial handler prior to making the call. See https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Pre-dial+handlers+Specification. On 1/10/2015 1:51 AM, Matthew Murphy wrote: Greetings everyone, I was wondering if there was a way to change the codec that Asterisk uses when streaming via MulticastRTP. Or perhaps a way to transcode the multicast stream. In the CLI, when I have a multicast stream in progress, I am typing 'core show channel MulticastRTP/0x7f7........' to get lots of helpful information. I have noticed that when I do a MULTICAST page and send data from MP3Player, I get no sound on my speakers and get the following from 'core show channel PJSIP/xxx': NativeFormats: (slin) WriteFormat: slin ReadFormat: slin WriteTranscode: No ReadTranscode: No I have noticed that when I do a UNICAST page and send data from MP3Player, everything works flawlessly and I get the following from 'core show channel MulticastRTP': NativeFormats: (ulaw) WriteFormat: slin ReadFormat: slin WriteTranscode: Yes (slin at 8000)->(ulaw at 8000) ReadTranscode: Yes (ulaw at 8000)->(slin at 8000) The only thing that is changing is the following line in my extensions.conf file: ; For Multicast Paging same => n(next),Page(MulticastRTP/basic/239.1.1.2:6061,q) ; For Unicast Paging same => n(next),Page(PJSIP/107&PJSIP/108,ib(pjsip-auto-answer-header^addheader^1)|p}) Is there any way to get the MP3Player stream to transcode (as it does on the UNICAST stream) when I try to MULTICAST? Thanks for the help, --Matt -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20151001/5c6fd206/attachment.html>