[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!

[kevin ling]

In my remember, when playback a file. The Asterisk will automatically choose
the audio file with the lowest conversion cost. Not always looks the
filename.gsm. 

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Mark Phillips
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 5:46 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!

Yes you can copy them into the same directory as the current files. Kris
recommends that you move your existing files for safety only.

The mode (ULAW, GSM etc) is selected by Asterisk depending upon what mode
the current caller is using.

Have you noticed that you don't have to put a file extension on the end of a
Playback instruction? This is because Asterisk looks for filename.mode when
trying to play a file. In the event it can't find filename.mode it looks for
filename.gsm.

If the file it's playing is not encoded using the current mode it has to
transcode the gsm file into whatever is required. This not only adds
computing overhead to the call in progress but degrades the quality of the
file as all such transactions are lossy.

Understand?

Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI
Randolph, NJ
http://www.g7ltt.com