[asterisk-users] VLC

[Steve Edwards]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Bex Vincent wrote:

> When our users receive a voicemail we send it attached to an email. It 
> used to work fine, encoded in wav49 and read by Windows media player. 
> Recently the default player in the company has become VLC which is 
> unable to read wav49. I am trying to use OGG/VORBIS instead of wav49. I 
> can't get it working:

Would "format = wav" do?

While the files are 10x bigger, it's still only 1mb per minute.

Unless you have to retain the files for a very long time and/or have a 
huge number of users, I can't see spending the CPU time to compress and 
decompress something that will probably only be listened to once and 
discarded.

Personally, the increase in fidelity is good enough reason to me.

Try "format = wav|wav49" and listen to the files with a decent set of 
speakers. I know the typical handset approaches two cans and a piece of 
wet string fidelity wise, but, since you say "attached to an email," your 
users will hear the difference.

Thanks in advance,
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