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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

Hi, In voicemail.conf.sample, you can read this: format=wav49|gsm|wav ; WARNING: ; If you change the list of formats that you record voicemail in ; when you have mailboxes that contain messages, you _MUST_ absolutely ; manually go through those mailboxes and convert/delete/add the ; the message files so that they appear to have been stored using ; your new format list. If you don't do this,

Hi, I'm running two boxes side by side, identical specs and setup but with differing dialplans. Both are on ast/zap/libpri versions 1.0.9. Both boxes share the same folder for voicemail, exported via NFS from another file server. Everything was working fine for an extended period of time, until just recently when someone rebooted Box A. Now when I dial an extension associated with a SIP

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

I am having problems with * voicemail emails. It will only mail out the gsm encoded messages. I would really like it to use the wav49 format to make it easier on my user's. I have tried specifying it with just wav49, and like wav49|gsm. It emails nothing, but if I set it to gsm|wav49 then sure enough it emails it out. According to the wiki it should send whatever is specified first. Anyone

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

All; I just came accross this problem, and I am a bit stumped. I am using Asterisk 1.4.23.1 and am using Asterisk Realtime Static for voicemail. I have not had a problem before, but now when someone tries to leave a vm, I get the error "No format for saving voicemail?" and Asterisk hangs up the call. According to the docs, Asterisk should default to wav49|gsm|wav. Clearly it is not

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

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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------

Dear asterisk users, I am presently playing with an asterisk@home. I am trying to find the best codec solution for my voicemail records. I want to use ARI (Asterisk Recording Interface) to read the messages. I first used the default wav encoding that was not appropriate because my navigator does not handle wav mime types correctly and I have difficulties playing wav files in my basic linux

Hello, When a voice message is saved and e-mailed as a wav, the total time of the voice mail does not show up in, e.g., windows media player, why is this? I have only used wav49/wav: ; Use wav49 format for all voicemail messages format=wav49|gsm|wav Justin.

Hello, Let me explain a scenario There are different Asterisk Servers at different Remote locations. Recording in different formats for FIVE seconds reveals that Format : Size wav : 84 KB gsm : 8.3 KB sln : 84 KB It can be recorded in any format. This is size for five seconds only. We need to transfer these files from different remote servers to a centralized server. We need to play these

Asterisk 1.2, Fedora Core 4: When I leave a voicemail message, it writes the necessary files to the INBOX: msg0000.gsm msg0000.txt msg0000.wav msg0000.WAV When I hang up, the files are erased. There is no indication of anything untoward in the logs: -- x=0, open writing: [...]/INBOX/msg0000 format: wav49, 0x99ce778 -- x=1, open writing: [...]/INBOX/msg0000 format:

Hello, I have setup an Asterisk 1.2.7.1 system, with a working voicemail box: /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf exten => 83086921,1,Answer exten => 83086921,2,Dial(SIP/stefan,5,r) exten => 83086921,3,VoiceMail,u111 exten => 83086921,4,Hangup exten => 83086921,103,VoiceMail,b111 exten => 83086921,104,Hangup /etc/asterisk/voicemail.conf [default] language=de 111 =>

Hello; I have a problem with voicemail and my asterisk 1.2.1 on a OS X Mac Pro intel box. When I try to record a message from an incoming call or a greeting message from internal phone using voicemail, It's like something is not doing well. I can heard anything, only a distorsion sound that is equal to lenght of the message left. First I thoug that could be something with format=gsm|wav.

I'm having tons of trouble getting the fromstring to work in voicemail.conf. I've tried both voicemail and voicemail2 but the emails still seem to be coming from asterisk pbx. Has anyone had any luck with this? ================= Here's my voicemail.conf: ; ; Voicemail Configuration ; [general] ; Default formats for writing Voicemail ;format=g723sf|wav49|wav format=wav49|gsm|wav ;

Hi there, I am using redhat 9.0 with asterisk 1.0.7. I created an user and was be able to leave voice messages to that user and retrieve the voice message. I looked the wiki and setup the voice message as the email attachment. However, I have never received email with the voice attachment. Here is the setting for voicemail.conf: ; ; Voicemail Configuration ; [general] ; Default formats

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]

Ok I have a challange that I can't seem to find a way to fix it. My Voicemail in * timesout after 30secs without fail everytime no matter what I do. I have incomming calls comming in through Freshtel IAX2, if it goes to SIP extension when it is online it can hang on for what ever time the call goes for. If however it goes to the Voicemail it will timeout at 30sec and I can't seem to

Hello, I have setup an Asterisk 1.2.7.1 system, with a working voicemail box: /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf exten => 83086921,1,Answer exten => 83086921,2,Dial(SIP/stefan,5,r) exten => 83086921,3,VoiceMail,u111 exten => 83086921,4,Hangup exten => 83086921,103,VoiceMail,b111 exten => 83086921,104,Hangup /etc/asterisk/voicemail.conf [default] language=de 111 =>