[asterisk-users] MP3 Crashing Asterisk

[Timothy Smith]

Thank you for the pointers.

I have checked my system, I seem to have the real mpg123. see below.

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[root at ivr2 en]# mpg123
You made some mistake in program usage... let me briefly remind you:

High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3
        version 1.13.0; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others
        free software (LGPL/GPL) without any warranty but with best wishes
.
.
.
See the manpage mpg123(1) or call mpg123 with --longhelp for more
parameters and information.
[root at ivr2 en]# ls -l /usr/bin/mpg123
ls: cannot access /usr/bin/mpg123: No such file or directory
[root at ivr2 en]# which mpg123
/usr/local/bin/mpg123
[root at ivr2 en]# ls -l /usr/local/bin/mpg123
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 386286 Dec 15 00:13 /usr/local/bin/mpg123
[root at ivr2 en]#

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I also think I installed it using yum, however, i can still install a
version from sources, just to be sure. Could you please give me the
exact URLwhere I can download a version that works well with asterisk?

Thank alot!

Tim

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:37 PM, A J Stiles
<asterisk_list at earthshod.co.uk> wrote:
> On Friday 04 Feb 2011, Timothy Smith wrote:
>> Hi Users,
>>
>> I have a problem with some of my mp3 files. they crash the system
>> (Asterisk 1.6.2.14 on a x86_64 running Fedora 13 ) when it tries to
>> play them.
>
> Some distros used to use mpg321 instead of mpg123  (early versions of which
> used to suffer from non-free licence restrictions, but newer versions are
> LGPL)  and the installer created a symbolic link so it could be invoked as
> mpg123.  This was known to cause problems for Asterisk, which preferred the
> original mpg123.
>
> Try running
> $ mpg123
> with no arguments, and note the author's name which appears in the output.  If
> you see "Michael Hipp", then it really is mpg123.  If you see "Joe Drew" then
> this is really mpg321.
>
> For confirmation try
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/mpg123
> If you see a symbolic link  (cyan and permissions start with lower-case "l")
> then this is the problem.
>
> You can always build the "proper" mpg123 from the Source Code  (if you aren't
> used to doing this, you may have to install the -devel versions of any
> packages which you have installed but the configure script thinks you
> haven't, is all).  When you run `make install` it probably will install
> itself in /usr/local/bin/mpg123 .  Most distros have a default path set to
> look in /usr/local/bin/ before looking in /usr/bin/ ; but if you really want
> to make sure, then you can just copy the binary over the top of the existing
> symbolic link;
> # cp /usr/local/bin/mpg123 /usr/bin/
> You might need to repeat this step last if you ever re-install mpg321 from an
> RPM package.
>
> --
> AJS
>
> Answers come *after* questions.
>
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