[asterisk-users] S3 Bucket support for playing sound files

Thu May 6 17:03:05 CDT 2021

What authentication? I just point to the bucket URL.

On Thu, 6 May 2021, 21:28 Dovid Bender, <dovid at telecurve.com> wrote:

> Jonathan,
>
> How do you get around the authentication part? In my case I am using GSM
> files so there are no issues there.
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 4:11 AM Jonathan H <lardconcepts at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I stream mp3s from s3 buckets all the time - but it's not Asterisk and s3
>> that have the issue, it's the incredibly outdated mp3 player baked into
>> Asterisk, which is from 1997 (see my original whinge about this below from
>> last year) and gives all those annoying "junk" warnings, plays very
>> quietly, and chokes on mp3 files with certain id3 tags (like embedded album
>> art).
>>
>> At the moment, my workaround is to just grab the file and strip all id3
>> tags and bumps up the outgoing volume to +7.
>>
>> I don't know why it's not been possible to update the mp3 library, but
>> hopefully one way round it might be if Asterisk were to offer a way of
>> using ControlPlayback etc with an external library?
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Jonathan H <lardconcepts at gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 09:33
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Playing MP3's in Asterisk
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <
>> asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Returning to the issue of mp3 support in Asterisk, it seems it is using a
>> build from 1997?!
>> http://svn.digium.com/svn/thirdparty/mp3/trunk/layer3.c
>>
>> I have the same problems as everyone with the mp3 add-on, but now a new
>> one:
>>
>>    - "mp3/interface.c: Junk at the beginning of frame 49443304" for ALL
>>    mp3 files, even when debug/verbose is off.
>>    - Very quiet playback compared to slin, so I have to control the
>>    outgoing volume by +7 for mp3 playback.
>>    - Now I find it chokes on mp3s which have a png cover art - this is
>>    perfectly valid in mp3 id3
>>
>> But I still need to use ControlPlayback from dialplan and f-agi.
>>
>> I started going down a rabbit-hole of ARI media and Audiosocket etc, for
>> example:
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjduXbZZEgI
>> https://github.com/CyCoreSystems/audiosocket
>>
>> These all seem to add a fair amount of complexity for controlling
>> playback - for example:
>>
>> https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/ARI+and+Media%3A+Part+2+-+Playbacks#ARIandMedia:Part2-Playbacks-Controllingplaybacks
>> And I need to know the current cplaybackoffset at any given time.
>>
>> I was thinking: to keep it simple, is there a way to tell Asterisk to use
>> a different mpg123 (the system one - my currently installed version from
>> 2020!) instead of the Asterisk build?
>>
>> I can live with the "junk" warnings and the quiet playback, but it cannot
>> be crashing on valid id3 content (and I have no control over the remotely
>> hosting files).
>>
>> Thanks for any pointers in the right direction!
>>
>> On Wed, 5 May 2021 at 22:11, <asterisk at phreaknet.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/5/2021 4:01 PM, Dovid Bender wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > Is anyone aware of any way of getting ControlPlayBack to work with an
>>> > amazon S3 bucket? I know I can put nginx in the middle but I am trying
>>> > to avoid that.
>>> I had some similar issues where ControlPlayback() wouldn't stream mp3
>>> files from certain sites.
>>> I ended up downloading the file to /tmp using wget and then playing the
>>> local file, which worked perfectly as a workaround.
>>> > TIA.
>>> >
>>> > Dovid
>>>
>>>
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