The processor power saved is negligible between PCMU and raw PCM and not worth the fuss.
If you didn't decode the audio first you would not be able to mix the stream to produce a single file.
So if we went to the trouble of making native media bugs to be able to do that you could barely use them so it would not be worth the 5k or more bounty to develop that functionality.



On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Matthew Fong <mattdfong@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm trying to conserve processor power by recording in native file format, PCMU in my case. It works great with the following line

session:execute("record", "/tmp/my_recording."..session:getVariable("read_codec"));

however it fails to work with

session:execute("record_session", "/tmp/my_recording."..session:getVariable("read_codec"));
or 
record = api:execute("sched_api", '+1 none uuid_record '..session:getVariable("uuid")..' start /tmp/my_recording.'..session:getVariable("read_codec"));

Why is it that it works with record, but not with record_session or uuid_record? Is there something I'm over looking? In the latter two the consul reports

2009-11-22 18:39:04.265284 [INFO] mod_native_file.c:82 Opening File [/tmp/my_recording.PCMU] 8000hz

as if it's recording, but /tmp/my_recording.PCMU never shows up. However if I change it to .wav instead of .PCMU it works. Any ideas?

--matt

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