[Asterisk-Users] mpg123 issue and solution

[Michael Manousos]

I've submitted a patch to the bugtracker that adds additional
support for the MAD player.
Here is the link:
http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=0001365

Michael.


Chris Maresca wrote:
> All,
> 
> I've been setting up an Asterisk PBX over the past few days and I stumbled
> across a problem with mpg123 that I have not seen documented anywhere.
> 
> If you put mp3 files into your mohmp3 directory and these files have ID3v2
> tags, mpg123 will throw an error message "Found new ID3 Header",
> regardless of the -q flag.  
> 
> This, in turn, will cause Asterisk to crash (yes), although it's a soft
> crash (exits cleanly).
> 
> It took me forever to figure this out, since the default mp3 and
> everything else was working fine.  And the lack of any meaningfull error 
> messages made diagnosis even more difficult....
> 
> My work around was to open the file in WinAmp and remove the ID3 tags
> entirely.  mpg123 and Asterisk were both happy and there was much
> rejoycing.
> 
> It might be a good idea to move away from mpg123 as it is no longer
> supported and there are bound to be more problems like this.  MAD seems to
> be what everyone is migrating to...  At the very least, not hardcoding a
> player into the codebase would probably be a good idea (if it is
> hardcoded, I couldn't find a config file for it...).
> 
> On a seperate note, if anyone is have problems registering SIP softphones,
> like the most excellent xTen X-Lite, try commenting out 'bindaddr' in
> sip.conf.  That allowed me to register and get everything working.
> 
> Finally, if anyone has any ideas about how to improve IAX voice quality,
> I'd be happy to hear them.  Everything is hearable, but there are an
> awfull lot of clicks and pops in the background.  The machine is a Celeron
> 500 with 128mb of RAM and Gentoo 1.4 (w/latest gentoo updates) and
> Asterisk 0.7.2.  I'm the only one using the machine ATM and it's about 2
> ft from my desk with a dedicated hub...  There is no telephony hardware
> install currently.  
> 
> SIP quality seems slightly better, and I've tried almost every WinIAX
> client out there, they're all pretty much the same.  I'm using the
> soundcard in my laptop and a Plantronics headset.  Playback of the IVR
> prompts generally sounds good, but inter-client communication is noisy.
> 
> Thx.
> 
> Chris.
> 
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