On Sat, Oct 07, 2006, at 22:18:35 -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I've read all over about known problems with mpg123 and MOH being > choppy, but there are a few things different about my situation: > > 1) When on hold and having mpg123 play the stream, the CPU usage on > the box still shows ~93% idle. mpg123 shows up as 0.0% usage and is > quite a bit down from the top of `top`. > > 2) Initially when putting them on hold, it plays between 30 and 60 > seconds of old audio that was on the stream in the past. Then after > that 30-60 seconds, it does a hard cut into what is currently playing > (which sounds pretty bad). > > 3) I'm doing SHOUTcast audio and not files, so I can't just switch to > the native * mp3 player. > > I tried with mpg321 which does play the stream cleanly without skips > or choppiness, but it's very low pitch which I found out is due to > mpg321 not being able to output in the correct format. > > I have Zaptel (with ztdummy) loaded and it improved a little bit, but > not a whole lot. Music on hold from the native mp3 player comes > through fine so it's not a network, provider, or CPU issue. > > The sound of the "choppiness" is basically just cutting in and out > every second or two. It's not super bad, but I'd really like to get it > better if possible...or at least eliminate the 30-60 second playing of > old stream data when initially putting anyone on hold before doing a > hard cut to the current broadcast. > > Thanks very much in advance for any suggestions or ideas. > > -Mark
Sorry, forgot to include what I'm running: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE asterisk-1.2.9.1_2 asterisk-addons-1.2.3_1 zaptel-1.0 mpg123-0.59r_17 -Mark -- Internet Radio: Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net IRC: MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxnet.net (Nick: MIXX941) _______________________________________________ Asterisk-BSD mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-bsd
