<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Steve Edwards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="http://asterisk.org">asterisk.org</a>@<a href="http://sedwards.com">sedwards.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, gergis.rasmy wrote:<br>
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> can i use MP3 files as an IVR prompts directly without converting to<br>
> .gsm format?<br>
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You don't want to do this.<br>
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Asterisk will attempt to use prompts encoded with the same codec being<br>
used for the channel. So, unless you have a channel that is using MP3,<br>
Asterisk would have to transcode the prompt every time it is used. Why<br>
would you want to "burn" CPU cycles for this useless activity?<br>
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You should strive to have prompts available in all the channel encodings<br>
actually used by your system. I have systems that only use ULAW, so all of<br>
my prompts are encoded as ULAW. (Sometimes I "cheat" and use WAV files<br>
since they are easier to work with and transcoding from WAV to ULAW is<br>
"cheap.")<br><br></blockquote><div><br>How should I convert my .wav prompts into aLaw, uLaw, G729 ?<br><br>Thx<br>Vai <br></div></div>