[asterisk-users] How can I record the conversations in a conference call?

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Carlos Chavez wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 08:38 -0700, Luki wrote:
>>> "Please note: A Zaptel timer must be present for conferencing to work!", but
>>> if the user does not have "ZAP/DAHDI hardware", he can use ZAP/DAHDI DUMMY
>>
>> Actually, my understanding is that this is incorrect. The conference
>> must contain ZAP/DAHDI callers. A dummy won't do. The reason is that
>> the ZAP/DAHDI driver mixes the audio in the driver and when this is
>> not available it falls back to mixing within MeetMe. But in such case,
>> you can neither record the conference nor run an AGI in the
>> background.
>>
>> See: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+MeetMe. This is
>> from 2004, maybe it changed by now.
>>
>> Luki
>>
> 	I use Meetme all the time in servers that just use dahdi_dummy.  I
> would say that in the past no one would recommend having more than 10
> users in a conference is you did not have a hardware clock but that has
> changed.  With newer kernels and Asterisk versions I have been able to
> get over 50 people in a single Meetme room without any glitches.
>
>

I also run all SIP conferences with dahdi_dummy and have recorded them.
As old as 1.4.22.1 seems to work fine.  Using options "riM" and setting 
MEETME_RECORDINGFILE beforehand.

j