[Asterisk-Users] Choppy Audio in Echo Test and Music On Hold (1.2.0-b2)

[Rich Adamson]

>  	I recently resurrected an old athlon system and put CentOS 4.2 on 
> it to play with asterisk.  First I tried asterisk-1.0.9, now I'm using 
> 1.2.0-b2.  Both have the same audio issues that have me stumped.
> 
>  	I looked through all the lists and forums and the closest I could 
> get were some messages from 2003:
> 
> http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2003-August/017171.html
> 
>  	I've got asterisk set up with my xten-lite softphone on extension 
> 200 over SIP.  I've configured extension 611 as an echo test and 612 will 
> play 30 seconds of MusicOnHold.  I can connect to both just fine, however, 
> they sound rather bad when they work (quite muddy) and periodically they 
> just drop out for as much as 5 seconds before coming back.

In the xlite configuration, look for an option something like 'transmit
silence' and set that to yes. (Might be called 'silence suppression', I
don't remember.)