[Asterisk-Users] mpg123 or asterisk

[Matt Riddell (IT)]

Vahan Yerkanian wrote:
> Erick Perez wrote:
>> should I use mpg123 with asterisk 1.2.7 or should i use the native
>> player asterisk has?
>> the target machine will receive heavy load.
> 
> mpg123 was used back when asterisk didn't have native format support. If
> you are expecting heavy load, the native format is the way to go. You
> might decide not to use mp3 format at all, recompressing your MoH files
> using sox to the formats you gonna use, such as .al, .ul, .gsm, or leave
> it at .sln to cut the decoding leg only.

Heh, damn this GPRS connection.  In order to pass the time while
downloading messages I reply before they are all in, and yet by the time
I have received all the messages I note that your question has already
been answered!

:)

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Cheers,

Matt Riddell
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