[Freeswitch-users] How to query current playback position?

[Dragos Oancea]

how are you playing the file ?
I gave this a try, I used "playback" in dialplan, then I used uuid_fileman
from CLI with cmd "stop". And I get the chan vars:
variable_playback_seconds: 12
variable_playback_ms: 12288
variable_playback_samples: 98304

Yes, they are meant to work on "stop" . You get the values when it's
stopped and then you seek to position.
You can seek with "playback":
<action application="playback" data="<sound-file-to-play>[@@<seek-offset
>]"/>
You can use inline dialplan too I think.

If you believe it's a bug, file a github issue.
Perhaps this feature for uuid_fileman would be useful too, so you could
file it as a feature request.


On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 11:39 AM Avi Marcus <avi at avimarcus.net> wrote:

> It looks like those variable are only updated upon PLAYBACK_STOP event,
> since the line before is:
> switch_log_printf(SWITCH_CHANNEL_SESSION_LOG(session), SWITCH_LOG_DEBUG,
> "done playing file %s\n", file);
>
> Can we make a feature, e.g. with uuid_fileman to query that for a live
> playing file?
>
> When I stop the file to get the position, it's destructive: I have to do a
> new playback to get back to my position, and to get all my key bindings, I
> need to transfer to an extension with them, and then I lose the position in
> the IVR.
>
> Thanks.
> -Avi Marcus
>
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 7:03 PM Dragos Oancea <dragos at freeswitch.org>
> wrote:
>
>> We set these channel variables in switch_ivr_play_say.c :
>>
>> playback_last_offset_pos, playback_seconds, playback_ms, playback_samples.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 5:53 PM Avi Marcus <avi at avimarcus.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to create a bookmark feature for long playbacks.
>>>
>>> I'll save the file and position (to be exact the sample position) and
>>> then when the caller comes back, they can choose to restart in the same
>>> place.
>>>
>>> The playback tool allows me to specify the sample position (and
>>> uuid_fileman lets me seek to one)
>>>
>>> But I don't see how to query the _current_ position.
>>> There's no status inside uuid_fileman
>>> There's no variables I see that are updating when doing uuid_dump.
>>>
>>> The closest I see is that if I stop the playback, I get a PLAYBACK_STOP
>>> event with the sample position.
>>>
>>> This seems like it could work, but that's means I need to trigger a
>>> script to stop the playback (can't continue listening) and wait for an ESL
>>> event, and hope we're getting the right one. (How to I listen for events
>>> attached only to a specific UUID?) This seems overly complicated.
>>>
>>> I was hoping to have a uuid_fileman option or the like to query the
>>> current position.
>>>
>>> Does that exist somewhere?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
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