[Asterisk-bsd] mpg123 and asterisk port

[Graham Menhennitt]

Vahan Yerkanian wrote:
> Graham Menhennitt wrote:
>> Vahan, could you please explain how to use "native formats" for moh.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>     Graham
>
> Here is my musiconhold.conf:
>
> ...
> I've used sox to convert the files. slinear is for the file formats
> that I don't have readily made, it cuts out the decode part of the
> conversion part every time the file has to be converted.
>
Thanks for that Vahan. The asterisk side of this seems to be working.
I've set up an extension that just plays moh. When I dial it I hear sounds.

But I can't get sox to convert properly. The files it produces are
almost silent. You can just hear some very strange "tinny" sounds. The
only codec I use is ulaw. So I just used "sox input.mp3 output.ul" (I
also tried "sox input.mp3 -U output.ul"). It must be doing something
almost right, because if I specify the output file as ".lu" instead I
just get white noise. So ".ul" files seem to be the right thing. But I
just don't get any music - just these strange sounds. I don't have
anything that plays .ul files directly. When I use sox to convert them
back to mp3 files, and I play them using Windows Media Player, I get the
same tinny sounds.

Do you have any clues please?

Thanks,
    Graham