[Freeswitch-users] serious problem in record_session

covici at ccs.covici.com covici at ccs.covici.com
Wed Sep 29 12:54:02 PDT 2010 

I am still working on it -- got some ideas from people on the
conference.

Rob Morin <rmorin at blie-ent.com> wrote:

> Two items, one for John, and one for the community:
> 
> 1. Did you (John) ever get this working?
> 
> 2. There has been discussion that if the calls are g729, that 2*n licenses
> are required (where n is the number of legs on a conference call). Would it
> be possible, and legal, to use an implementation such as this to create an
> extension that gets recorded such that the number of licenses required to
> record a conference call would be n+1, rather than n*2?
> 
> Thank you,
> Rob Morin 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: covici at ccs.covici.com [mailto:covici at ccs.covici.com] 
> Sent: 09/25/2010 7:15 PM
> To: FreeSWITCH Users Help
> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] serious problem in record_session
> 
> OK, I had the following problems executing your idea -- I am sure its
> because I don't know what I am doing, but only way to learn!  When I did the
> bind_meta_app to the start_recording_extension it worked after a fashioni.e.
> it started a new file, but kept the old one going.  Now what I tried after
> that was I figured if I could execute record_session with the same file name
> again it would close the file and all things would be good.  In order to do
> this, I tried to set a variable to false record_in_progress and execute an
> extension in that one which would set it to true and if I hit the key again
> the variable would be true and then it would close the file.  However what I
> ran into was that from the extension called stop_recording where I have a
> condition for the variable to be true, and an anti-application to set it to
> true if it were false the set takes place, but the variable never actually
> gets set.  I see the set, but if I log the variable its still false.  So
> what am I doing wrong here?
> 
> Here are the two extensions I wrote:
> <extension name="start_recording">
> <condition field="destination_number" expression="^start_recording$">
> <action application="execute_extension" data="stop_recording"/> <action
> application="set"
> data="record_fn=$${recordings_dir}/${caller_id_number}.${real_destination_nu
> mber}.${strftime(%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S)}.wav"
> />
> <action application="record_session" data="${record_fn}"/> </condition>
> </extension> <extension name="stop_recording"> <condition
> field="destination_number" expression="^stop_recording$" /> <condition
> field="record_in_progress" expression="^true$"> <action
> application="record_session" data="${record_fn}"/> <action application="set"
> data="record_in_progress=false"/> <anti-action application="set"
> data="record_in_progress=true"/> </condition> </extension> with a
> meta_bind_app bound to start_recording.
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> covici at ccs.covici.com wrote:
> 
> > Sounds like a plan.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Anthony Minessale <anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > the easy way would be to bind to execute_extension instead of record 
> > > and make up an exten like start_record, then make an extension that 
> > > tests for destination_number to be "start_record" and do it from 
> > > there.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:34 AM,  <covici at ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> > > > That would append to the same file -- I would like to have the 
> > > > time string be the current time, evaluated in real time -- is this
> possible?
> > > >
> > > > Brian West <brian at freeswitch.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Set RECORD_APPEND=true variable.
> > > >>
> > > >> /b
> > > >>
> > > >> On Sep 23, 2010, at 8:57 AM, covici at ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> > Hi.  I am having a serious problem making record_session work 
> > > >> > properly in my dialplan -- it records fine using meta-app, but 
> > > >> > if I turn it off and on, it overwrites the previous file with 
> > > >> > the same time and date when the meta-app was invoked.  Is there 
> > > >> > anyway to make the time the current time so it would give another
> file?
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Thanks for any ideas.
> > > >> >
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