[asterisk-dev] Audio to/from Asterisk

Jean Aunis jean.aunis at prescom.fr
Mon Jul 22 03:08:42 CDT 2019


It may not be suitable for your use case, but you could instantiate a 
UnicastRTP channel. It will allocate an RTP port and store it into a 
channel variable.

Jean

Le 22/07/2019 à 10:01, Dan Jenkins a écrit :
> Also coming back to this with some real-life case issues I'm currently 
> facing and why I can't use audiosocket :(
>
> I need to be able to ask the ARI/AGI/AMI for an IP/port combo and for 
> an external app to then connect into asterisk rather than asterisk 
> connecting to a URI elsewhere. Lets say I already have a nodejs (or 
> any other language) process taking care of controlling that call via 
> ARI or even AGI (all the different ways) - I need that same process to 
> handle the media I'm sending and receiving to/from asterisk and so if 
> I already have that process up and then Asterisk calls out to a 
> generic URI then that media will never make it back to the original 
> nodejs process.
>
> I think its of upmost importance that I be able to ask asterisk for a 
> host:port pair and then be able to connect to that port from my 
> external application.
>
> What do people think? I thought we'd talked about this mechanism at 
> devcon?
>
> Dan
>
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 2:39 PM Dan Jenkins <dan at nimblea.pe 
> <mailto:dan at nimblea.pe>> wrote:
>
>     Just  going to chime in and say I don't see a one way audio
>     solution as enough and I'd worry that doing that would lead to "oh
>     but only so many people need to chuck audio in". This has been
>     discussed at at least 3 devcons now.
>
>     On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 2:09 PM Seán C. McCord <ulexus at gmail.com
>     <mailto:ulexus at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         I certainly don't mind if a better-designed system comes along
>         and obviates my AudioSocket implementation.  I built it
>         because I needed it. However, bidirectional audio flow is
>         critical for me (speech synthesis, external interfacing,
>         real-time processed audio, processed injections, etc).  While
>         I would actually prefer a system which was a bit beefier than
>         my own (simple protocol aside, there's a good deal of range
>         between my protocol and MRCP), my meagre C skills (and
>         patience) don't allow me to venture forth into those difficult
>         waters.
>
>         I do like the separate connection (unlike Wazo's) and the
>         support of TLS (unlike mine)... and yours is certainly (even
>         without looking) more performant. Mine also probably needs a
>         multi-threaded, dedicated-receiver approach like most of the
>         other channels which handle socket-received media, rather than
>         the simple non-blocking I/O with null frame insertion.  No
>         perfect solution yet.
>
>
>
>         On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 8:01 AM George Joseph
>         <gjoseph at digium.com <mailto:gjoseph at digium.com>> wrote:
>
>             Hey Guys,
>
>             I was on vacation when this thread happened but I'm also
>             working on this now.  The implementation uses the existing
>             ARI channel and bridge recording endpoints ands add the
>             ability to specify a URI in the form of
>             (udp|tcp|tls)://hostname:port to stream the media.  This
>             makes use of the existing chan_bridge_media driver and
>             only requires a scheme handler similar to Seán's
>             res_audiosocket.  This implementation is more targeted to
>             real-time speech recognition/transcription/captioning and
>             is therefore one way (outbound).  A future enhancement is
>             planned that would send each channel in a bridge as a
>             separate audio channel in a multi-channel container.
>
>             I'm not suggesting that this should replace Seán's
>             audiosocket stuff but I did want to let you know what was
>             in the pipeline.
>
>             george
>
>             On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 7:38 AM Seán C. McCord
>             <ulexus at gmail.com <mailto:ulexus at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                 Solutions such as Jack are non-network oriented and
>                 severely limited in scalability.  There are, of
>                 course, many other options, but the closest are
>                 chan_rtp and chan_nbs.  RTP is a good option except
>                 for the difficulty for non-telephony people to
>                 interact with it.  NBS is deprecated, undocumented,
>                 and unsupported by any locatable resources.
>
>                 While the original app interface from last year
>                 required dialplan, the channel interface does not.  It
>                 is a plain channel which can be used by ARI directly.
>
>
>                 On Fri, Jul 5, 2019, 15:28 Sylvain Boily
>                 <sylvain at wazo.io <mailto:sylvain at wazo.io>> wrote:
>
>                     Hello Seán,
>
>                     On 2019-07-05 4:45 a.m., Seán C. McCord wrote:
>>                     A brief update:
>>
>>                     I have adapted my app_audiosocket from last year
>>                     to become chan_audiosocket, a full bidirectional
>>                     audio channel interface for Asterisk to any
>>                     AudioSocket service (which itself is a
>>                     dead-simple implementation).  I'll be demoing it
>>                     in my talk next week at CommCon, for anyone who
>>                     might be interested.  I'm going to try to have it
>>                     ready to push to gerrit for review this weekend.
>
>                     I'll be there.
>>
>>                     For now, you can see it in the 'channel' branch
>>                     of github.com/CyCoreSystems/audiosocket
>>                     <http://github.com/CyCoreSystems/audiosocket>.
>
>                     This is very different from what we did. You need
>                     dialplan to use it. In our case we don't need any
>                     dialplan to use it, it's more ARI approach.
>
>                     Sylvain
>
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