[asterisk-users] MOH Oddity

[Matt]

For some reason I have to set the type to 'files' if I set it to 'quietmp3'
I get nothing, even though the files are valid MP3 files that play on
another asterisk system... does that mean I've got something installed
wrong?

2010/3/5 Håkon Nessjøen <haakon at avelia.no>

> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Matt <mhoppes at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to setup my asterisk system for the least overhead as
> possible.
> >
> > My understanding (and experience with other systems) leads me to believe
> I can run any MOH using a certain class through a single 'player' as opposed
> to starting an independent stream for each MOH instance.  However, try as I
> might, I can not get it to work.
>
> If the MOH files have the same codec as the calls, I don't really
> think you need to think of this as resource demanding. Normal MOH from
> files only opens the files and reads a chunk of data, and if possible
> sends it directly to the client. This means that there is no advanced
> "player" in use. If your machine have reasonable amount of ram
> installed, the files also will automatically be cached in your ram by
> your operating system. So it's really just transactions of data chunks
> from your ram to a socket. Doesn't really matter if all channels read
> from the same place inside the file, or if they start from the
> beginning for each channel.
>
> If you used a single external program to convert for example a web
> radio to 8khz audio, then you would get all those calls retrieving
> data from the same place. But this would be much more prone to errors,
> and more resource demanding than pre-encoded audio files in a
> directory like you already do.
>
> Håkon
>
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