[Asterisk-bsd] Real usefullness of mpg123 dependency / rxfax note

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 07:54:39PM +0400, Vahan Yerkanian wrote:
> Greetings folks,
> 
> I'd like to inquiry on how many of you are using the mpg123 on your 
> FreeBSD Asterisk installations and how useful you think this dependency 
> for the Asterisk port is? Personally for me, leaving MoH as it is per 
> out-of-ports install causes mpg123 processes eat CPU 100% under FreeBSD 
> 6.0... I've switched to native format MoH since 1.1 and haven't looked 
> back for mpg123. Was wondering if we really want to have it installed as 
> a dependency at all for the /usr/ports/net/asterisk. At least having a 
> WITHOUT_MPG123 switch in the makefile could help us keep our port list 
> as minimal as possible.

if you try the asterisk-devel port, it does not have that and
a few other dependencies, and it uses either the trunk code or
a branch with some modifications of mine that i am using on
FreeBSD.

yes there is a problem with mpg123 because the parent (asterisk)
process doesn't handle interaction with the children (mpg123)
properly, at least on freebsd.
a change was committed last summer, but backed out because it
caused some problem on linux. i gave up on tracking the issue
because i don't use mpg123 or moh anyways.

cheers
luigi

p.s. we are now in a rather long ports freeze in freebsd so
for the next couple of weeks there are basically no commits
allowed to the ports tree


> What's your opinion?
> 
> As a non-related side note, I just succeeded in receiving a multipage 
> fax over g711(alaw) / 9600 fax passthru connection (non-T38) from a 
> panasonic fax machine using rxfax/spandsp installed via current asterisk 
> port. Both adapter and the * server were on a dedicated CIDR LAN subnet.
> 
> Best regards,
> Vahan
> _______________________________________________
> Asterisk-BSD mailing list
> Asterisk-BSD at lists.digium.com
> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-bsd