[Freeswitch-users] create dummy channel to record conference

[Brian West]

The conference has a native record functionality and the core knows how to append but I'm not sure the conference itself can append.  I think we would need to have a bounty posted for that.

/b

On Apr 21, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Alexandre Mouillé wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I hope I'm not posting this in the wrong mailing list.
> 
> I'm working on a custom conference that uses the conference module. I need a record function that keeps recording (or at list appends the same wav file) when no one is in a given conference.
> The solution that was used in the Asterisk program I'm porting was to create a dummy channel that goes in the conference and records what it hears in a file.
> 
> - Can I create a dummy channel with an "originate /loopback" that would go into a conf and record what it hears (I'm not sure what loopback really is)
> 
> - Otherwise, can I use originate from the FS box to call itself, one side connects to the conference and the other records.
> (I'm not sure how to do that, and how I could transmit variables (to tell which file to record to) to the called program)
> 
> Thanks