[asterisk-users] Questions on musiconhold.conf custom mode

[Olivier]

2014-10-25 19:33 GMT+02:00 Thorsten Göllner <tg at ovm-group.com>:
>
> Am 25.10.2014 00:09, schrieb Olivier:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I need to play some musiconhold content starting at a random duration
>> from the start.
>>
>> Thanks to mode=custom option and either madplay or mpg123 programs, I
>> could successfully get what I was after on a Debian Wheezy system.
>>
>> Now I realized sox version on my target system (Debian Squeeze) cannot
>> convert to MP3 format.
>> So I'm looking after workarounds.
>>
>> 0. I've read many  mpg123 or madplay examples. All of them are
>> clutered with option converting MP3 input file into an appropriate
>> format that Asterisk requires for music on hold.
>> What is the name of this appropriate format ? sln ? wav ?
>>
>> 1. Is there a player like mpg123, that can repeat content in
>> appropriate format (see above)  to stdout but can read from anything
>> different from MP3 ?
>>
>> 2. Is there an option on Squeeze to convert audio files to MP3
>> (reverse coversion works OK).
>>
>> 3. Which options could I have for such custom MOH, if I was building
>> on system without g729 transaltion capabilites ans with g729-only SIP
>> trunks or phones ?
>>
>
> Is the gsm-format an option for you? So you may convert your moh-File to
> gsm:
> sox YouWavFile.wav -r 8000 -c1 MohFile.gsm

Hi Thorsten,

Yes gsm-format is an option for me but how can you play such gsm file as MOH ?

If I'm not mistaken, both madplay or mpg123 would only play MP3 files
(I've not tested with other formats, yet).
I could successfully play a RAW file with cat but cat has no repeat
option, so I still have to find something else anyway.


>
> If you really need mp3 you have to compile sox with mp3-support by
> yourself OR maybe this is a solution on Debian:
> http://www.howtoinstall.co/en/debian/wheezy/main/libsox-fmt-mp3/

Yes, you're correct.
I'll suggest my customer a Wheezy upgrade.


>
>
> -Thorsten-
>
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