[asterisk-users] Ring tone too loud on IAX channel

[Tim Panton]

On 16 Jan 2007, at 20:33, Russell Horn wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are using MozIAX as a softphone with a USB headset and are making
> outbound calls using IAX with ulaw encoding to our voip provider.
> We're running asterisk 1.4
>
> Users are complaining that the ring tone generated by asterisk is much
> louder than the voice call once connected. They are having to turn the
> volume down to avoid being deafened by the ring tone, but then have an
> unacceptably low volume for the voice call.
>
> Can anyone suggest what might be the problem here, or steps I could
> take to address it?

There are 2 places the ring tone could be generated, either in
asterisk - then sent to the softphone as audio media, or alternatively
in the softphone itself - in response to asterisk sending a 'ringing'  
message.


Tim Panton

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