[Asterisk-Users] size and quality of audio clips effecttheplayback??

[Steven Critchfield]

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 23:14 -0800, Gabriel Afana wrote:
> Hi,
>     This is what I am running:  Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3
> (Taroon Update 4)
> 
> Is the Taroon the kernel version?  Do you think this could be a kernal issue
> (did you hear it for yourself at the site)?

No Taroon I would have to guess is some internal name for the release.
RH has always named their releases.

No I didn't bother to listen to it. RH is broken with respect to decent
kernels. Then again, I am a staunch debian supported and wouldn't ever
use their kernel either. 

Try the new kernel and see.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Critchfield" <critch at basesys.com>
> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 4:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] size and quality of audio clips
> effecttheplayback??
> 
> 
> > Have you compiled a vanilla kernel yet? I don't trust any distro
> > supplied kernel.
> >
> > On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 12:07 -0800, Gabriel Afana wrote:
> > > Anybody have any ideas on this?  I dont know what to do and my new
> website
> > > just launched yesteryday.
> > >
> > > www.gafana.com
> > >
> > > Go to the "Real-time sport scores" under the How It Works section.  You
> can
> > > put your telephone number in there and it will call you.  Listen to the
> > > message and hear what I am talking about.  Its strange though, *just*
> right
> > > now I tried it and it sounded perfect...earlier this morning it jittered
> > > every few seconds!
> > >
> > > Gabe
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Gabriel Afana" <adtomi at adelphia.net>
> > > To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
> > > <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 4:21 PM
> > > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] size and quality of audio clips effect
> > > theplayback??
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >     I've been having issues with asterisk playing back recorded
> messages.
> > > > They sound clear..but there are lots of breaks during playback (like
> its
> > > > losing packets).  I got top-end hardware and I'm on a killer network
> so
> > > its
> > > > not that.  I've talked over my SIP line using a regular telephone and
> it
> > > > sounds great, so its not the VOIP provider.  Asterisk is working great
> > > with
> > > > no other problems.  So I'm thinking one of two things:
> > > >
> > > > More Obvious:  The other thing I noticed is I get a warning on
> asterisk
> > > when
> > > > I start the console saying the chan_oss it requested 8000 Hz but got
> 48000
> > > > Hz -- sound may be choppy.  I am using the onboard sound card.  Does
> > > > Asterisk use a sound card to play the audio over VOIP or is sound card
> > > only
> > > > needed if I have a physical phone hooked up to the computer?
> > > >
> > > > Less Obvious:  Will the size and quality of a GSM audio file effect
> the
> > > > playback?  all my files were converted from wav files (22k 16bit
> stereo)
> > > to
> > > > 8k mono GSM....the sound quality is fine, its just playback is choppy
> and
> > > > wondering if playing with the actual GSM file format would change
> > > anything.
> > > >
> > > > Gabe

-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>