[asterisk-users] Help for MOH - sounding scratchy/static on hold

[Jeff Brower]

Sandesh-

> I used the converter to convert the sound file to 8KHz, 16 bit PCM encoded
> mono wave file which asterisk needs and now the POTS call quality is lot
> clear than before but the cell phone is still the same, not much
> clear.......i think because of its voice codec as you mentioned.....

Ok "sounds good", hehe.

-Jeff

> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:38 AM, hin lee <hin87 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I am also having this issue with the MOH.  Would be nice to find a
>> solution!
>>
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>> *From:* Steve Edwards <asterisk.org at sedwards.com>
>> *To:* Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <
>> asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>> *Sent:* Fri, January 29, 2010 3:43:12 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: [asterisk-users] Help for MOH - sounding scratchy/static on
>> hold
>>
>> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Danny Nicholas wrote:
>>
>> > Mpg123 works well for us.  You have to get your files into mp3 format,
>> > but LAME does this simply.
>>
>> Why would you want to compress files when you will have to decompress them
>> again every single time the are used? I'd rather use the CPU cycles to
>> process more calls. Are you in a severely storage challenged environment?
>>
>> You should store all of your audio encoded to match the codec used by the
>> channel.