I have a suse 8.2 installation of mpg123 and I have no problems with the id3 tags
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philipp von Klitzing Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 11:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] mpg123 issue and solution Hi! > If you put mp3 files into your mohmp3 directory and these files have ID3v2 > tags, mpg123 will throw an error message "Found new ID3 Header", > regardless of the -q flag. > > This, in turn, will cause Asterisk to crash (yes), although it's a soft > crash (exits cleanly). > > It took me forever to figure this out, since the default mp3 and > everything else was working fine. And the lack of any meaningfull error > messages made diagnosis even more difficult.... > > My work around was to open the file in WinAmp and remove the ID3 tags > entirely. mpg123 and Asterisk were both happy and there was much > rejoycing. See also: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+config+musiconhold.conf (as well as the Wiki Asterisk FAQ section concerning variable bit rate) > It might be a good idea to move away from mpg123 as it is no longer > supported and there are bound to be more problems like this. MAD seems to > be what everyone is migrating to... Indeed mpg123 is known to be the cause for many problems. Cheers, Philipp > Finally, if anyone has any ideas about how to improve IAX voice quality, > I'd be happy to hear them. Everything is hearable, but there are an > awfull lot of clicks and pops in the background. This is probably due to the IAX software phone that you are using (and its underlying library). On * server to * server connections this shouldn't be the case (if yes: try to enable/disable the jitter buffer, see other mails here). -Philipp- _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
