[Asterisk-Users] Monitor application

[Mark Spencer]

Actually the "easy" way would be to use the seek functionality with
absolute time relative to when the recording began, combining Steven
Critchfield's work with Mahmut's.  That way even if there is silence in
the middle where there are no packets, we "seek" to the right place in
time to record.

Mark

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, John Todd wrote:

> As has been mentioned before, the Monitor application and my macro
> have one significant problem: the recordings are un-synchronized to
> each other.
>
> The first channel starts recording when the Dial is executed.  The
> second channel starts on Asterisk receiving an "Answer" from whatever
> channel driver is being connected.  This means that there may be a
> several second delay between when you complete dialing and when the
> person answers - normally this delay is when the caller hears ringing
> tones.  When the two files are merged together, this ring delay makes
> for a very confusing gap between the channels.
>
> What needs to be done is that either:
>    a) Both channels need to start recording on the execution of the
> Dial statement, and silence needs to be "recorded" on whatever
> channel has not answered yet.
>    b) A less elegant method could be to start the recording on both
> channels at the time of the "Answer" on the second channel.
>
> The clever person who came up with Monitor (Mahmut Fettahlioglu) had
> mentioned looking at this more sometime when he had a chance...
>
> JT
>
>
>
>
> At 1:35 PM +0300 6/12/03, Pertti Pikkarainen wrote:
> >
> >Check
> >http://www.loligo.com/asterisk/current/extensions.conf
> >
> >and find macro called  macro-record-on
> >There is at least one way described ( author is John Todd ).
> >
> >
> >--Pertti
> >
> >
> >
> >Andy Powell wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I've had a search through the archives and didn't find much. Is
> >>anyone using the Monitor application? I have it working but there
> >>is a really big drawback. The files are always called the same
> >>thing, which means if I make 2 calls one after the other the first
> >>recording is lost. I half expected Monitor to use something like
> >>ZAP-2-1-<yyyymmddhhmmss>-in/out.wav for it's filenames but it just
> >>uses the channel eg
> >>Zap-2-1-in.wav
> >>Zap-2-1-out.wav
> >>
> >>has anyone found a solution to this?
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>
> >>Andy
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>_______________________________________________
> >>Asterisk-Users mailing list
> >>Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
> >>http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> >>
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >Asterisk-Users mailing list
> >Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
> >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
>
> _______________________________________________
> Asterisk-Users mailing list
> Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
>