[Asterisk-Users] MPG123, Music On Hold and Variable Bit Rate

[Chris Stenton]

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 01:01, Mike Coakley wrote:
> I swear I read somewhere at sometime a command line that someone put 
> forth that used mpg123 and sox to normalize the MP3 for MoH to a 
> constant bitrate, etc... Through my search again for this information I 
> can't find it. Can someone tell me if I am crazy and if so... does 
> anyone have an "off the top of their head" solution to getting the 
> bitrate constant for MoH?
> 

mpg123 will do variable bit rate and output it at 8kbs. It may not like
some of the frames that are encoded on some mp3s but being vbr is in
itself not a problem from my study of the situation.

Chris