[asterisk-dev] New AGI manager command: PlaySound

[nik600]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Tilghman Lesher
<tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 24 January 2009 13:43:56 Moises Silva wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Russell Bryant <russell at digium.com> wrote:
>> > On Jan 24, 2009, at 1:00 PM, nik600 wrote:
>> >> If i'm wrong, please correct me but i think that it doesn't exists an
>> >> AGI manager command to play a sound (or an audio file) on a specific
>> >> channel.
>> >
>> > First, are you talking abotu AGI or the manager interface (AMI) ?
>> > They are too different beasts.
>> >
>> > In AGI, you certainly already have this capability through STREAM FILE
>> > or with EXEC Playback.
>> >
>> > In AMI, you would be correct in saying that there is not a straight
>> > forward way to do this today.  However, it's not as trivial to
>> > implement as you might think.  You can not model it after app_playback
>> > or something similar.  The big reason is that the handling of a
>> > manager action happens in another thread, not in the channel thread
>> > like the Playback application code.
>>
>> You can always use Async AGI to control your channel through the
>> manager interface using AGI commands.
>
> In fact, I think I'd prefer if the original poster took this approach, rather
> than attempting a separate command.  This ensures that the sound only
> reaches the channel when it makes sense and not in the middle of some other
> set of prompts.
>
> Typically, if you are looking to divert the channel from AMI, you'd want to
> use the Redirect command, anyway, to send the channel to a set of events,
> not just a single Playback.
>
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> Tilghman
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Ok, thanks to all for your suggestion.

Sorry, but exactly what is a channel hook?

The 2 channels involved in the call can still continue to talk?

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