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

[Chris Stenton]

Have you tried "zttest -v" to see if the timing is ok.

zttest is in the zaptel/test directory

Also make sure you are loading the zaptel modules built with the current 
kernel sources and not an older version.


Chris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kiel R Stirling" <kiel at knss.net>
To: "Asterisk on BSD discussion" <asterisk-bsd at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-bsd] Music On Hold, working with FreeBSD 5.3


>I have cvsup'd to 5.4-STABLE and have installed the latest src from the 
>listed site and I have recompiled my kernel with the required option. Now 
>when I load the dummy asterisk fails to load. It fails at different point 
>each time so asterisk-cvvvvvv is no help.
>
> Any idea's ??
>
> -Kiel
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Stenton" <jacs at gnome.co.uk>
> To: "Asterisk on BSD discussion" <asterisk-bsd at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 8:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-bsd] Music On Hold, working with FreeBSD 5.3
>
>
>> You don't neeed to sample down mp3 files to use format_mp3 infact they 
>> will sound better if you don't. If you are going to sample down you might 
>> as well convert them to slinear at the same time to reduce overhead.
>>
>> Is there some old documentation around still cos it was a very early 
>> version of mp3_format that was fixed format?
>>
>>
>> A bit late now but what mpg123 thread problem were you having I thought I 
>> fixed that months ago on 5.2.1? I am running 5.4-stable now and cvs-head 
>> seems rock solid at the moment.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <harrisb at rcisd.org>
>> To: "Asterisk on BSD discussion" <asterisk-bsd at lists.digium.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 3:19 PM
>> Subject: [Asterisk-bsd] Music On Hold, working with FreeBSD 5.3
>>
>>
>>> 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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