[asterisk-users] MOH problems (asterisk 1.4.38)

[Thomas Rymes]

On Jan 4, 2011, at 8:49 PM, Earl Terwilliger wrote:

> On Tuesday, January 04, 2011 04:37:21 pm Tom Rymes wrote:
>> On 01/04/2011 12:31 PM, Earl Terwilliger wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>> 
>>> I just installed Asterisk 1.4.38 (on an updated Centos 5.5 machine) and
>>> am getting this error :
>>> 
>>> WARNING[6472]: res_musiconhold.c:856 moh_scan_files: getcwd() failed: No
>>> such file or directory
>> 
>> [snip]
>> 
>> Have you installed mpg123 or some other program to handle the mp3 files?
>> I am fairly certain that Asterisk cannot handle mp3 natively (most
>> likely for licensing reasons).
>> 
>> Tom
> 
> Hi Tom
> 
> that was my next step if i could not find a way to just play the wav files.
> I re-booted the server and that seems to have fixed whatever problem was 
> causing this. stopping and starting asterisk had no affect.
> 
> earl

Ah. I got the impression that you were trying to play MP3 files. I would not recommend that you use MP3 instead of WAV, though.

Tom