[Asterisk-Users] MP3Player problem

[Ernest W. Lessenger]

At 07:01 AM 11/7/2003, you wrote:
>Hi !
>
>Now I can hear nice mp3 through my phone... Great :P
>And many thanks for your posts. Now it's working fine... hmmm almost !!!
>
>In fact, I m using DialenMP3.agi. It's a real nice agi script...
>For those which would not know, you will find it here :
>http://asterisk.gnuinter.net/files/digium/asterisk-ng/agi/
>
>What the agi script does, it's "EXEC MP3Player \"$key\"\n";
>in which the key is the mp3 to play.
>
>Well the things weird, really weird, it's that the process, launched by
>the agi script, is never killed !!! Any ideas to fix that ?!?

You need to...

1) Set up a signal handler to handle the case when the mp3 player dies 
before you are ready (SIGCHILD)
2) Kill the mp3 player before you exit the AGI script (kill <procid>)

I'll help you with this if you need it, it's really not all that hard.

--Ernest