[asterisk-users] No sound with Playback() or Background()

[john beaman]

Jake,
  Check to make sure you have the sound files for whatever audio format (gsm.wav, etc) that you are using.  I don't remember the details, but Asterisk quit including the sound files in the base distribution to minimize the size of the download.  Then, in a later version, they have a script that will prompt you for some info, then will download and install the sound files that you want to use.



John Beaman
Telecom Specialist
Voice Telecommunications Services Department.
Good Samaritan National Campus
605-362-3331

>>> joannaliza at gmail.com 2/28/2007 7:30:03 AM >>>
Hi Jake,

Perhaps you can add

NoOp(${PLAYBACKSTATUS}) after each Playback, it should return either
"FAILED" or "SUCCESS" in the CLI

Hope that helps.

Best Regards,
Joanna

On 2/28/07, Kuba <notme at konto.pl> wrote:
>
> After switching to Asterisk 1.2.14 from 1.0.x, I encountered a very
> strange problem. There is no sound with Playback() or Background()
> commands.
>
> Even though, Asterisk console shows the file is being played when I call
> the extension ( i.e. echo test), I can't hear anything.
>
>
> My echo test extension looks like this:
>
> exten => 600,1,Answer
>
> exten => 600,2,Playback(demo-echotest)
>
> exten => 600,3,Echo
>
> exten => 600,4,Playback(demo-echodone)
>
>
> exten => 600,5,Hangup
>
> Console shows something like that when I call:
>
> -- Executing Answer("SIP/206-081a7160", "") in new stack
> -- Executing Playback("SIP/206-081a7160", "demo-echotest") in new stack
> -- Playing 'demo-echotest' (language 'en')
>
> So it looks like Asterisk is playing the file, but I can't hear anything.
>
> The files demo-echotest.gsm and demo-echodone.gsm are present in
> /var/lib/asterisk/sounds, so this is not the matter of missing files.
>
> The same problem occurs with every file I try to play with Playback() or
> Background() commands.
>
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks
> Jake
>
>
>
>
>
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