[Asterisk-Dev] Jackd and Asterisk

[Jerris, Michael MI]

> [mailto:asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steven
> On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 20:52 -0700, Mike Taht wrote:
> > I am curious if anyone has tried to create a jackd (jack audio 
> > connection kit) <-> asterisk plugin? It looks like a 
> straightforward 
> > way (with admittedly a lot of up and downsampling) to interface odd 
> > things into asterisk's sound processing loop  - graphically watch 
> > sound quality on a conference for example - mix in a little 
> extra bass 
> > response on an outgoing call (adding a sense of authoritay to the
> 
> Jackd doesn't force up or downsampling onto anything itself. 
> The trouble you would run into is that to run any of the 
> graphical portions would require X. X isn't conducive to a 
> well functioning asterisk machine. 
> 
> All that said, I have considered jackd as a good option for 
> doing some interesting functions such as provide a way to get 
> MOH off of the asterisk machine. Specifically I would like to 
> use something like Rivendell to automate MOH and introduce 
> advertisements at set intervals.
> 
> I have also thought that with jack.udp you could deploy some 
> really simple machines about and be able to do some 
> interesting things with ambient music and announcements. 
> 
> Of course jackd might introduce some load we might not want 
> to incur while running asterisk.

Is this a good time to resurect Remote MOH, and then you could setup
libiax on a remote machine to run your MOH.