[Asterisk-Users] Choppy Audio in Echo Test and Music On Hold (1.2.0-b2)

[Matt Riddell]

Rich Adamson wrote:
>> 	I recently resurrected an old athlon system and put CentOS 4.2 on 
>>it to play with asterisk.  First I tried asterisk-1.0.9, now I'm using 
>>1.2.0-b2.  Both have the same audio issues that have me stumped.
>>
>> 	I looked through all the lists and forums and the closest I could 
>>get were some messages from 2003:
>>
>>http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2003-August/017171.html
>>
>> 	I've got asterisk set up with my xten-lite softphone on extension 
>>200 over SIP.  I've configured extension 611 as an echo test and 612 will 
>>play 30 seconds of MusicOnHold.  I can connect to both just fine, however, 
>>they sound rather bad when they work (quite muddy) and periodically they 
>>just drop out for as much as 5 seconds before coming back.
> 
> In the xlite configuration, look for an option something like 'transmit
> silence' and set that to yes. (Might be called 'silence suppression', I
> don't remember.)

I think it's called VAD (Voice Activity Detection) in xten products.

-- 
Cheers,

Matt Riddell
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