On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:06:48PM -0400, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > I have Asterisk running on a FreeBSD machine that is also my > router/firewall and MySQL server.
Asterisk is a CPU-intesive program. It will probably work fine with a router/firewall, but with another potentially-CPU-intensive program like mysql, you may have problems. Actually, the previous paragraph was over-simplistic. What asterisk really needs is "fast access" to the CPU: low latency" is important, otherwise calls may sound jaggy. So make sure MySQL won't compete with Asterisk on the CPU. > It is running fine and I've gotten > it working with FWD and will be testing a direct IAX server in the > next few days. I'm migrating from a Packet8 Virtual Office setup and > have managed to get their "DTA-310" working on my installation. > > Here are my questions.- Next time please give a proper subject to your message, please. > 1. Does anyone have suggestions for license-friendly MOH sources? > Same for reworks of the voicemail and autoattendant prompting? What exactly is your problem with the existing MOH of asterisk? It is freely distributable and can be freelly used *as MOH only*. If you want to use it for anything else you indeed have a problem, which is why Debian have removed it from the package (as it is indeed non-free). But if you just want it as music-on-hold, there shouldn't be a problem with it. For that reason we have silently re-added those files to our (Xorcm Rapid) repository. To prevent any potential license confusion the MOH files are packed in a separate package with a clear license. It also make sense from a size point of view: most of the size of the asterisk source package is the 3 MOH files that are practically guaranteed to never change. No point in including them in the distribution. Another source of MOH files is the classical music collection from Signate: http://signate.com/moh.php I'll probably package some of those in a MOH deb pretty soon. However: why do we need a high quality 44khz stereo MP3 music only to be decoded at runtime and then converted to 8khz mono? Wouldn't it cost more to save it in advance as wav with "phone quality"? No real quality lost, not too much disk space lost, and a lot of CPU time saved, isn't it? Not to mention avoiding a format that is widely recognized as patent-encombered. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users