On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 14:53 +0000, Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > Ishfaq Malik <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > I was using the Playback application to play an MP3 file after compiling > > and installing asterisk 1.8.7.0 with format_mp3 and it seems to me that > > asterisk is transcoding the file to an slin on the fly rather than > > playing the mp3 itself. Is this what it does? > > Of course. You are not going to send mp3-encoded audio over a phone line, > are you? That would require an mp3 decoder in every phone. > > In fact, any mp3 player is transcoding to linear on the fly, since that > is part of converting it to audio for the speaker or earphones! > > What did you think was the difference between "trascoding to slin" and > "playing the mp3"?
Hmm, when you put it like that, makes me wonder what I was thinking :) > > > Also, does this mean I might as well change the format of MP3s to WAV > > seeing as I'm used to doing that anyway? > > If you have the storage space available for the larger WAV files, then yes, > this would reduce the CPU consumption of playback. > > Cheers > Tony Thanks for the response Tony -- Ishfaq Malik Software Developer PackNet Ltd Office: 0161 660 3062 -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
