[Freeswitch-dev] Audio formats without transcoding

[Mikael A. Bjerkeland]

Hmm, what about setting a channel variable to change this behaviour? I
might be off track, but shouldn't the file be transcoded if that's the
only way to play it?


El vie, 02-01-2009 a las 07:09 -0800, Michael S Collins escribió:
> From my experience if the native file format is not found then it  
> will not play anything, but will show a file not found error.
> 
> -MC
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jan 2, 2009, at 3:38 AM, "Mikael A. Bjerkeland" <mikael at bjerkeland.com 
>  > wrote:
> 
> > Michael,
> >
> > let's say G722 isn't found, but .wav is, will FS revert to using
> > the .wav file and transcode if the file extension is not specified in
> > playback?
> >
> > I will be creating a script to convert any file using sox to every
> > specified format so we can avoid transcoding as much as possible.
> > The script will appear at
> > http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_native_file anytime soon.
> >
> >
> > El mar, 09-12-2008 a las 08:34 -0800, Michael Collins escribió:
> >> Unfortunately mod_native_file hasn't been documented on the wiki yet.
> >> I'm going to work on that. However, the gist of it is this: if you
> >> have a file in the proper format, such as g711, then you can specify
> >> the file name w/o the extension and FreeSWITCH will pick the right  
> >> one
> >> for the codec being used. You'll need to make sure that your file
> >> names have the proper extensions, like .pcmu for mu-law. A complete
> >> list is available here:
> >> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/audio/
> >>
> >> so if you have these files:
> >> /tmp/hello.wav
> >> /tmp/hello.pcmu
> >> /tmp/hello.gsm
> >> /tmp/hello.g729
> >>
> >> you can specify the exact file name, in which case FS will play the
> >> file and do whatever transcoding is needed. Or you can specify the
> >> filename without the extension and FS will pick the appropriate one:
> >>
> >> <action application="playback" data="/tmp/hello"/>
> >>
> >> Look for an update on the wiki in the next day or two. In the  
> >> meantime
> >> please report back if you have any issues.
> >>
> >> -MC
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Michael Jerris <mike at jerris.com>  
> >> wrote:
> >>> yes, you can use mod_native_file.
> >>>
> >>> Mike
> >>>
> >>> On Dec 9, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Juan Jose Comellas wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I need to support calls using G.711, G.729 and G.722 and I want to
> >>>> avoid transcoding as much as possible. Does FreeSWITCH support  
> >>>> playing
> >>>> audios in a raw format that does not require transcoding for any of
> >>>> these codecs? It looks like FS provides WAV audio files with the
> >>>> frequencies of the supported codecs and relies on transcoding all  
> >>>> the
> >>>> time. Is my analysis correct? How does everybody else handle this
> >>>> problem?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> Freeswitch-dev mailing list
> >>> Freeswitch-dev at lists.freeswitch.org
> >>> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-dev
> >>> UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-dev
> >>> http://www.freeswitch.org
> >>>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Freeswitch-dev mailing list
> >> Freeswitch-dev at lists.freeswitch.org
> >> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-dev
> >> UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch- 
> >> dev
> >> http://www.freeswitch.org
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Freeswitch-dev mailing list
> > Freeswitch-dev at lists.freeswitch.org
> > http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-dev
> > UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-dev
> > http://www.freeswitch.org
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Freeswitch-dev mailing list
> Freeswitch-dev at lists.freeswitch.org
> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-dev
> UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-dev
> http://www.freeswitch.org