[Asterisk-Users] mpg123 doesn't like me

[Jerry Glomph Black]

I am using mpg123 0.59r and I have the same spin-out problem, with the newly 
released Asterisk 1.0.   There are sporadic dropouts in voice calls in the 
presence of the CPU being pegged at 100%.

I think that (failing to solve the actual problem) there needs to be some kind 
of watchdog procedure attached to the voicemail function that kills off 
irrelevant mpg123 processes.

I'm trying hard to get the family to switch over to VoIP, and having this kind
of intermittency is making it tough.

Undoubtedly others are getting this problem, my setup is really vanilla.  The 
problems commenced when I started using the voicemail function.



On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Brian West wrote:

> DO NOT USE mpg321.... I don't know how much more clear the postings to this
> list and searching google...
>
> I REPEAT USE mpg123 0.59r
>
> bkw
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
>> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jesse Tyler
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:37 PM
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] mpg123 doesn't like me
>>
>> Niles:
>>
>> 1.) Make sure your Asterisk is close to the latest. Of course yours
>> is:! :)
>> a.) HEE HEE <- :) mp123 is now called mpg321
>> 2.) Use asterisk -r on the terminal line: to run a smooth shut-down
>> 3.) If you are using Debian the reload can be invoked by using :
>> /etc/init.d/asterisk reload | start | stop
>>
>> Hope this helps a little,
>>
>> Jesse Tyler
>>
>>
>>
>> On 29-Sep-04, at 3:06 PM, niles at atheos.net wrote:
>>
>>> I've having a problem with asterisk & mpg123 lately, that presents
>>> itself after asterisk has been running for a few hours.
>>> The machine is a quad xeon 450 with 1Gig ram running Slackware 10,
>>> Asterisk 1.0,
>>> and mpg123-pre0.59s compiled from source.
>>>
>>> The voicemail messages & any other audio that is played back by
>>> asterisk
>>> becomes extremely distorted and garbled. Then, when I check on the
>>> resources,
>>> I notice mpg123 taking up all available resources!
>>>
>>> 21475 root      19   0  2660 2656  2476 R    99.9  0.2  46:05   1
>>> mpg123
>>>
>>> 99.9% -  and it doesn't stop after shutting down asterisk. I must
>>> manually
>>> kill all instances of mpg123 and restart to get things back to normal.
>>>
>>> Interested in knowing if anyone else has this issue, and what can be
>>> done to
>>> resolve it.
>>>
>>> Niles
>>>
>>>
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