[Freeswitch-users] Strange Behavior with Channel Variable [session:setVariable() vs <action application="set" ... /> ]

[Steven Ayre]

<action application="set" date="playback_timeout_sec=10" />

I assume you mean data="..." not date="..."?

-Steve



On 10 March 2011 20:21, Sidharth Kshatriya <sid.kshatriya at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I am using a little known but very useful channel variable called
> "playback_timeout_sec"
>
> In Lua if I do: session:setVariable("playback_timeout_sec", "10")
>
> and subsequently in a macro I have:
>
> <action function="play-file" date="/some/filename.mp3" />
>
> Then the filename.mp3 stops playing automatically after 10 seconds. This is
> very useful if you want to play short excerpts of a file that could be very
> long.
>
> But if I do:
>
> <action application="set" date="playback_timeout_sec=10" />
> <action function="play-file" date="/some/filename.mp3" />
>
> My file does NOT stop playing after 10 seconds. This is weird given that
> <action application="set" .. /> is doing exactly the same thing as
> session:setVariable() ... right?
>
> My question
> 1. What could be the problem with application set?
> 2. Is there a way to automatically stop playback after a certain number of
> seconds for a file? (without doing tedious things like create a separate
> 10second version of an mp3 using ffmpeg etc.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sidharth
> --
> Sidharth Kshatriya
> www.sidk.info
>
>
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