[asterisk-app-dev] ari events stop when two channels join mixing bridge

[Joshua Colp]

Ben Klang wrote:
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>>
>
> If I may expand on this a bit: I think your first bullet is actually a
> stand-in for several possible other reasons:
>
>> * I want audio to pass through the core, as opposed to directly
>> between the participants
> because…
> * I want to record the bridged audio or otherwise gather input from it
> * I want to be able to play audio to the bridge or to individual bridge
> participants
> * I want to be able to quickly mute or unmute certain participants
> (without doing gymnastics like a reINVITE)
> or, of course:
>> * I want DTMF
>
> All of the above can be summarized as “I (the application) want to do
> something with the media."
>
> I can’t think of a good reason to want audio to pass through core unless
> you want to somehow interact with the media. The only other time I would
> not want peers to directly exchange media is for NAT reasons, but that’s
> something that I want Asterisk to figure out for me, not something the
> application should care about.

The bridging framework is smart enough that it can/does/will change to 
obey these requests when you need them. Now as you mention being able to 
do the muting/unmuting fast without a reINVITE would require explicitly 
requesting it to proxy the media.

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