similar to: Convert a file from WAV to WAV49 or GSM for Asterisk

There's a been a long standing issue with voicemail volume levels for files saved in WAV49 format as compared to WAV format. WAV49 is much smaller in emails and that's great, but it's also less than half the volume level than the exact same voicemail saved in WAV format. I've seen this mentioned by several others over the years in the mailing list -- has there been any

How can I play wav49 or gsm voicemail files on FC6? Nothing seems to play them (hxplay, xine, mplayer, etc). I think I have all the normal codec packages installed. I can play regular wav files, but they're too big. - Mike

Does anyone know what options you need to use with "sox" to output the audio in the WAV49 format that Asterisk uses.

Hello, all. I'm running Asterisk 1.6.1.6 on CentOS 5.3 in a multi-tenant environment with IMAP voice mail storage on Zimbra. One of our clients is having a problem when transferring voice mails from one mailbox to another (option 8 in the standard voice application menu) using their Snom 320 and 360 phones. The end results is the final recipient cannot listen to the voicemail. We also email

Hello Happy New Year! I succesfully installed the Ports of Zaptel BSD 1.4.0 and Asterisk 1.4.13 (that's the latest in the Ports). To save CPU, I'd like to play PCM WAV files instead of eg. GSM. Per... www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Convert+WAV+audio+files+for+use+in+Asterisk ... I recorded a sample of my voice using XP's Sound Recorder, then ran the following : sox test_wav.wav -r

Anybody know an easy way to adjust audio level of recordings made in Asterisk (using the 'record' application)? I've noticed that recordings using the "wav" format are about twice the level of those made using "WAV" or "wav49". Unfortunately, the "wav" recordings are uncompressed and about 10 times the size of the other formats. -brian

Hello list, I have the following in my voicemail.conf : [general] format=wav|wav49 When I receive a WAV-file from my Asterisk-server, I am unable to play the file... There is no player on my Fedora that wants to play the file. When I make my Asterisk-server unreachable, the incoming call goes to the voicemail of my ITSP. Don't know what system they use there but the mailing I get with the

Hi All, When our users receive a voicemail we send it attached to an email. It used to work fine, encoded in wav49 and read by Windows media player. Recently the default player in the company has become VLC which is unable to read wav49. I am trying to use OGG/VORBIS instead of wav49. I can't get it working: In voicemail.conf: format = ogg The result is as follow: [Mar 11 09:42:17]

Hi, how can I convert .wav files to .WAV: # file greet.* greet.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 8000 Hz greet.WAV: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, GSM 6.10, mono 8000 Hz using 'sox'? Thanks -- Domenico Viggiani

The special wav49 ms hack doesn't produce correct WAV files on output. they cannot be played back on windows media player nor winamp. for example a typcial voicemail message with 9 seconds stops after 6 seconds playback with the error: "invalid fileformat (Error=8004022F)" attached is such a file. in the meantime I use the uncompressed wav format and postprocess this in

HI ALL; I have problem converting a windows .wav file to .gsm format by Sox. Could anyone help. Cheers, Mohammad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050706/3408bfd5/attachment.htm

Hi, I tried to find a reference in terms of size but got back a bunch of tech documents and couldn't get the idea of wav49 format. wav49 format is supposed to be half the size of a normal wav right? so, how much disk space takes to save one minute of audio in wav49? I trying to do some capacity planning for a voicemail server. -- ------------------------------------------------------------

Someone submitted a bug about wav49 voicemail problems with the Windows Media Player here http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000254 bkw918 changed the status of the bug to resolved because he could not reproduce the error with his version of Windows Media Player. I am having the same problem as the original bug poster. I am using WMP 9.00.00.3075 running on Windows XP and using

I have the voicemail format set to wav49 in my voicemail.conf file. When retrieving voicemails, the first message plays back ok - but then Asterisk hangs up and the log shows the following error. Any idea what's up? May 19 12:57:24 VERBOSE[7860]: Asterisk Ready. May 19 13:48:51 WARNING[7860]: Not a wav file 49 May 19 13:48:51 WARNING[7860]: Unable to open fd on

Hey there, I'm trying to convert some call recordings from asterisk we have in .gsm format to something I can pipe through ffmpeg - wav would be good, mp3 would be amazing! I've been trying playing with sox but I don't seem to be getting too far with 1239101491.30.gsm -ql -r 64000 -t wav 1239101491.30.conv.wav resample as ffmpeg borks at it: tim at freee-meee:~/dmc/call

hi, i try to convert wav file to gsm format.use following commands; sox net263-welcome.wav -r 8000 -g -c 1 net263-welcome.gsm resample -ql the file is located in /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/net263 but cant' play.do you know what's wrong? -- Executing Playback("SIP/1001-00000091", "net263/net263-welcome") -- <SIP/1001-00000091> Playing

Hello list, it seems that Asterisk is unable to convert a wav-file into an alaw-file : [root at asterisk testing]# asterisk -rx "file convert testExtended2.wav testExtended2.alaw" Unable to open input file: testExtended2.wav [root at asterisk testing]# asterisk -rx "file convert testLong2.wav testLong2.alaw" Unable to open input file: testLong2.wav The wav-file is MONO,

android email will not play wav49 file attachments. See: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1712 Now I'm getting a lot of pressure to change the format used in voicemail. Here's what I've got: format = wav49|gsm I'd like to change it to format = gsm|wav49, but the voicemail.conf.sample says "Don't Change the Format Unless You REALLY Know What

Can anyone point me in the direction of a utility which will let me determine the length (in seconds) of a wav49 file created by Asterisk? Many thanks, Malcolm

Hello: I would like to produce some GSM Prompt audio files for a Telephone Directory Project-- and have hired a freelance audio engineer to record, and edit the actual files-- However the GSM files he gives me to upload into asterisk DO NOT work when played back throgh "Stream File" or "Get Data" in my agi. It seems that there may be more than one GSM file type (with