[Asterisk-Users] MPG123 with Asterisk on debian (one of our interesting experiences)

[Steve Gladden]

This was just a recent personal experience....
Maybe I missed a thread on this:

We recently installed  asterisk (CVS-HEAD) on a debian system using 2.6
kernel and the enhanced RTC for all timing.
Also a custom compiled kernel for the CPU on the box (P4).

We had a strange thing happen in that with Debian's MPG123 package:
Sound files played in asterisk/mpg123 were heard at literally 1/10th the
speed they should have played at...

It was hilarious, music on hold sounded like heavy breathing and scared
a few clients!

Our fix ended up being to remove the debian package and compile our own
MPG123 locally on the box.

The debian package installs something else called "mpg321" and creates
an alias or symlink called mpg123 to mpg321.

In our case it did not work very well!
Which is strange 'cause we have other asterisk systems working just fine
with the debian "mpg123" so-called package :-)

Steve