[Asterisk-Users] Background Playback fails

[Tim Guy]

Hi Guys.   I’ve had a lay off from Asterisk for 12 months but I am starting to look into it again. I am not very Linux savvy and found it hard going the last time. I’ve started playing with it in the last 3 weeks and I have to admit to making more head way this time.   The first problem I'm stuck on and I cant find a solution to is that sound files that I have recorded (be it by creating a temp file from an extension number, or by recording in .wav) will not play when I try to create a menu in the extension.conf   The relevant lines are:   exten => s,1,Wait,2 exten => s,2,Answer exten => s,3,Background(mainmenu)   The mainmenu.gsm is sitting in the sounds folder.   I get an error on the console saying:       -- Executing Wait("SIP/timg-a4e6", "2") in new stack     -- Executing Answer("SIP/timg-a4e6", "") in new stack     -- Executing BackGround("SIP/timg-a4e6", "mainmenu") in new stack Jun 11 12:33:00 WARNING[1209214400]: file.c:464 ast_openstream:  File mainmenu d oes not exist in any format Jun 11 12:33:00 WARNING[1209214400]: file.c:752 ast_streamfile:  Unable to open mainmenu (format ULAW): No such file or directory   == Spawn extension (default, s, 3) exited non-zero on 'SIP/timg-a4e6'   What am I doing wrong guys???   Cheers   Tim