[asterisk-users] Soundcard necessary on an asterisk server to get output of playback()??

[dave cantera]

this sounds like it might be:

1)  a permissions problem...  
        did you install * as root?
        is there a .gsm, .ulaw, .alaw file?

2) sip.conf problem
       codec not allowed or not specified, did you allow the proper codec?

daveC

1) permissions

drwxr-xr-x  17 root root 221184 Dec  8 10:14 /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/

[root at pbv01 ~]# ls -ld  /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/tt-monkey*
-rw-r--r--  1 root dip 129440 Jun 14  2007 
/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/tt-monkeys.alaw
-rw-r--r--  1 root dip  26697 Jun 14  2007 
/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/tt-monkeys.gsm
-rw-r--r--  1 root dip  18139 Jun 14  2007 
/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/tt-monkeysintro.alaw
-rw-r--r--  1 root dip   3762 Jun 14  2007 
/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/tt-monkeysintro.gsm
-rw-r--r--  1 root dip  18139 Jun 14  2007 
/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/tt-monkeysintro.ulaw
-rw-r--r--  1 root dip  36322 Jun 14  2007 
/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/tt-monkeysintro.wav
-rw-r--r--  1 root dip 129440 Jun 14  2007 
/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/tt-monkeys.ulaw
-rw-r--r--  1 root dip 258924 Jun 14  2007 
/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/tt-monkeys.wav

2) sip.conf
disallow=all
allow=ulaw
allow=gsm



Bhrugu Mehta wrote:
> no , not at all, there is no need to install sound card in asteirsk system.
> I am using asterisk server without soundcard.
> so there may be antoher problem may in configurtion of zapata or other.
> cheers!!!
> Bhrugu mehta
>
> On Dec 3, 2007 11:31 PM, Stefan Guenther <asterisk01 at in-put.de> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I' still fighting the problem, that I can talk from one SIP phone to
>> another, but I can't hear the output of the playback or similar
>> applications:
>>
>>          exten => 202,1,ANSWER()
>>          exten => 202,2,PLAYBACK(tt-monkeys)
>>          exten => 202,3,HANGUP()
>>
>> When I dial 202, asterisk show the following on the cli:
>>
>> -- Executing [202 at local:1] Answer("SIP/user1-0827ebe8", "") in new stack
>> -- Executing [202 at local:2] Playback("SIP/user1-0827ebe8", "tt-monkeys")
>> in new stack
>> -- <SIP/user1-0827ebe8> Playing 'tt-monkeys' (language 'de')
>>
>> Yes, the file tt-monkeys exist in /var/lib/asterisk/sounds and the
>> subdirectory de.
>>
>> No, there is no error message even if turn on debugging. :-(
>>
>> Besides this strange behaviour, I was wondering whether the asterisk
>> server needs an soundcard to send the output of e.g. the playback
>> application to the phone.
>>
>> BTW, this is asterisk 1.4.13
>>
>> I would be really happy, if someone has an idea how to solve this problem.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Stefan
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