[Asterisk-bsd] Music On Hold, working with FreeBSD 5.3

[Vahan Yerkanian]

Been running asterisk stable under 5.3 for more than 8 months, with 
madplay instead of mpg123 for MoH, with 128kbit stereo mp3s (i'm too 
lasy to resample)...... 10 calls on MoH and top reports 97% idle time

just my 2 cents in,
Vahan

harrisb at rcisd.org wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> Just wanted to share my successes.  I had been running my home * box on
> FreeBSD 5.2.1.   Switching back and forth between 1.0.7 and CVS current,
> up until a couple of weeks ago, when CVS started breaking.   MOH was 
> unusable
> due to mpg123 thread problems.
> 
> I had read about the new format_mp3, but could not get it working under 
> 1.0.7.
> 
> I knew I might have some issue with 5.2.1, as most the list messages 
> implied
> the baseline OS was now 5.3-RELEASE.   So, I booted up off of 5.3 CD and 
> 30 minutes
> later had 1.0.7 running fine.  
> 
> So, I figured, why not press my luck,  updated CVS, copied in the 
> format_mp3 patch,
> sampled down 4 mp3's with 'lame', and MOH worked like a champ.
> 
> Interesting side note,   on 5.2.1,  CPU utilization for a typical IAX 
> bridged call ran
> about 2-3% with fair amount of run time.
> 
> Under 5.3-RELEASE and cvs-current,  cpu utilization is negligble 
> accumulating much
> less cpu time on-call or with MOH playing.  I haven't looked at it close 
> enough to see
> if it's just a difference in the way 5.2.1 and 5.3 report utilization, 
> but it appears more
> work is offloaded to system rather than user time.
> 
> Don't know about stability yet, but will see after a few days.  
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
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