[asterisk-users] Call Recording Questions

[Antonio Berrios]

  On 09/02/2010 01:09 PM, Ishfaq Malik wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 07:21 -0400, Dan Journo wrote:
>>> 1) I want to create add *1 call recording and wanted to know whether the file is created during recording or only after? I want to syncronise the
>>> recorded files with my web server (on a different machine (Windows)) so I need a way of telling when the recorded call has ended before copying it over.
>>> 2) I tried setting up *1 in features.conf but when I press *1, all that happens is that the caller hears the tones but no recording starts. I've added
>>> wW to the Dial() command, and also Set(DYNAMIC_FEATURES=automon) (don't know if the last one is necessary). The line in features.conf says automon =>
>>> *1 and I restarted asterisk once the changes were made.
>> Sorry, just re-read my email and realised I didn't ask any questions and it sounded quite rude.
>>
>> Basically, I'm trying to allow one of my clients to record calls and download them onto their PC. I'm thinking of creating a web interface for this, which is where my first question comes in.
>>
>> However, I can't seem to get it working. I think it's something to do with inband and rfc2833 but when I change it, the menu systems seem to stop working.
>>
>> Can anyone assist?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Dan
>>
> We've mounted a separate storage device onto both the web server and
> asterisk server. The recorded calls are saved directly onto the storage
> device and the web server can read off it directly too.
>
> This has the added advantage of allowing the web server to create sub
> directories on the monitor directory if you have more than one client
> using the same asterisk server
>
Beware that if you have lots of concurrent calls writing all these 
simultaneously to disk can be heavy on the disk I/O load. I have our 
recordings written to a solid state drive rather than straight to 
storage disks then moved to long term storage to avoid this problem. You 
could use a ram disk if you have enough memory, this is probably cheaper.

Also if the share you're writing directly to goes down call recordings 
will stop being written, where as if you try and copy/move them after 
they're finished then the cp/mv will just fail but your recordings will 
still be written locally and stored up until the share is available again.

And yes, sounds like its using Monitor() and not MixMonitor().

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