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

[Sidharth Kshatriya]

Yes data :-)

checkout http://jira.freeswitch.org/browse/FS-3142 for resolution...

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Steven Ayre <steveayre at gmail.com> wrote:

> <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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