[asterisk-users] Converting asterisk h264 recordings

[Steve Edwards]

> On Behalf Of Torbjörn Abrahamsson
> 
> We are setting up an asterisk system for voicemail with video 
> possibilities. We are not using the voicemail app, but rather writing 
> our own dialplan logic. The part of recording, and replaying, the 
> voicemail works, and we receive both an h264 and an wav-file. What I now 
> wonder is how to convert these into one file playable by a (standard) 
> media player. I have not found any real good leads by google:ing, but of 
> course I may have missed it… Any pointers?

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Danny Nicholas wrote:

> Perhaps this would work for you?
> 
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9005

+1

My guess is that mplayer/mencoder will fit the bill.

The 'hard part' will be figuring out the requirements of the media players 
you want to support. If your consumers have access to mplayer or vlc, they 
should be able to handle almost anything.

One little 'gotcha' is that there are bugs in some GPUs.

I run a MythTV frontend with an ION GPU and it crashes playing the TED 
'podcasts' because the height & width are not multiples of 16! I have to 
crop 1 pixel off each side. I use HandBrake because it makes better use of 
the multiple cores on the MythTV backend.

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