[Asterisk-Users] mpg123 removal

[Cirelle Enterprises]

we had the same problem, so we switched it to madplay (do a search in 
the wiki)
and that issue stopped.


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Matt Riddell (IT) wrote:

> Robert La Ferla wrote:
>
>> Chris Albertson wrote:
>>
>>> Second even if there were one the mpg123 process is not long lived.  
>>> A new one is started for each
>>> MOH session.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I hate to say it but there is a problem where the mpg123 process 
>> never terminates.  This occurs with the latest SVN-branch-1.2-r7917 
>> version and has been doing this for at least a few weeks now.  I just 
>> uninstalled it tonight because of this.  I am in the process of 
>> switching over to the format_mp3 addon.
>
>
> Yeah, I have suspicions that that is what has caused my server in New 
> Zealand to crash twice in the last couple of weeks.
>
> Unfortunately being that I'm in the opposite time zone, it's a little 
> difficult to access a machine which does not respond to SSH.
>
> I tried to get my wife to killall mpg123 processes from the console, 
> but the machine was probably in the Asterisk console rather than the 
> command line.
>
> Lucky we don't use it on any production servers...
>