[Asterisk-Users] Start of all recordings cut off

[David C. Troy]

I have found this behavior with the 7960's, but not with the Pingtel 
Xpressa or ATA-186.  I think I've read it's a bug in the 7960 firmware;  I 
am running 5.1 and see this problem.  If anyone knows if it's been 
corrected in 5.3, I'd like to know.  Meantime the Answer/Wait sounds like 
a good workaround.

Dave

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On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 wasim at convergence.com.pk wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
> 
> > > Before running any application that has sound playback (Playback, 
> > > Background, VoiceMailMain2, etc.) it would be wise to execute an Answer 
> > > first, then a Wait(2) to allow for VoIP channels to fully establish and 
> > > settle.
> > 
> > John, in order to clarify before I add this to the Wiki - is it wise (an advice)
> > or necessary (it does not work otherwise)?
> 
> Its considered Good Practice(tm), since it'll cause something (like AGI
> dtmf recoginition that arroc couldn't get to work, till he put an Answer
> in the dialplan). So, get in the habit of Answering your channels and then 
> proceeding.
> 
> Also, instead of a wait(2), we generally background an innocous music or a
> prompt for say 2 seconds, thus, people aren't waiting in dead-air, get
> some audio-feedback, and if the prompt is truncated, it doesn't matter
> since it was just a feeder in the first place. Wait will also not take any
> DTMF input during that time, so repeat users are stuck for that time. 
> 
> Ofcourse if you notice a significant % of your VoIP sessions take time to
> settle, then best do a Wait(2), no point in send garble-jumble down the
> line. JT, as usual has very valuable suggestions.
> 
>  - wasim
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