[Asterisk-bsd] Real usefullness of mpg123 dependency / rxfax note

[Vahan Yerkanian]

Greetings folks,

I'd like to inquiry on how many of you are using the mpg123 on your 
FreeBSD Asterisk installations and how useful you think this dependency 
for the Asterisk port is? Personally for me, leaving MoH as it is per 
out-of-ports install causes mpg123 processes eat CPU 100% under FreeBSD 
6.0... I've switched to native format MoH since 1.1 and haven't looked 
back for mpg123. Was wondering if we really want to have it installed as 
a dependency at all for the /usr/ports/net/asterisk. At least having a 
WITHOUT_MPG123 switch in the makefile could help us keep our port list 
as minimal as possible.

What's your opinion?

As a non-related side note, I just succeeded in receiving a multipage 
fax over g711(alaw) / 9600 fax passthru connection (non-T38) from a 
panasonic fax machine using rxfax/spandsp installed via current asterisk 
port. Both adapter and the * server were on a dedicated CIDR LAN subnet.

Best regards,
Vahan