[Asterisk-Users] mpg123 causing Asterisk Freeze?

[mattf]

Hello,

Well, I've re-encoded all of my files with lame just like it says to for
Constant Bitrate:

prompt$ lame -b 128 -F file1.wav file1.mp3

but I'm still getting the error at Asterisk start time:

 [res_musiconhold.so] => (Music On Hold Resource)
  == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/musiconhold.conf': Found
Warning, flexibel rate not heavily tested!
Warning, flexibel rate not heavily tested!
  == Registered application 'MusicOnHold'
  == Registered application 'WaitMusicOnHold'
  == Registered application 'SetMusicOnHold'

No crashes yet, but that doesn't usually happen for a day or so, any ideas?

Thanks,

MATT---



-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Godee [mailto:ken at perfect-image.com]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:05 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] mpg123 causing Asterisk Freeze?


mattf wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am currently using MusicOnHold(mpg123), and it works just fine, but
every
> once in a while I will get a flurry of warnings in the CLI like those
below
> and Asterisk will freeze completely, and the only way to come out of it is
> with a kill -9 . Is mpg123 causing my problem? Is there a specific format
of
> MP3 that should be used/avoided to not have errors like these? Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> MATT---
> 
> ERRORS:
> 
> Skipped RIFF header!
> Warning, flexibel rate not heavily tested!
> Warning, flexibel rate not heavily tested!
> Warning, flexibel rate not heavily tested!
> Warning, flexibel rate not heavily tested!
>     -- Started music on hold, class 'default', on Zap/4-1
> Junk at the beginning 52494646
> Skipped RIFF header!
> Warning, flexibel rate not heavily tested!
>     -- Stopped music on hold on Zap/4-1
> Warning, flexibel rate not heavily tested!
> Junk at the beginning 49443303
> Warning, flexibel rate not heavily tested!
> Warning, flexibel rate not heavily tested!

I'll throw a guess on this one.....

Sounds like the mp3 your playing is "variable rate encoded" (most mp3's 
are) and * doesn't like it.

Convert the mp3 to nonvariable rate encoding, try like 128b, there's
plenty of tools around to do it.

I can't remember for sure, but the last time I tried a variable rate
encoded mp3 it didn't work at all and had to convert it.

That is if your mp3 is variable rate encoded.


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