SHOUTcast MOH Problems

Hi everyone.

I've read all over about known problems with mpg123 and MOH
being
choppy, but there are a few things different about my
situation:

1) When on hold and having mpg123 play the stream, the CPU
usage on the
box still shows ~93% idle. mpg123 shows up as 0.0% usage and
is quite a
bit down from the top of `top`.

2) Initially when putting them on hold, it plays between 30
and 60
seconds of old audio that was on the stream in the past.
Then after that
30-60 seconds, it does a hard cut into what is currently
playing
(which sounds pretty bad).

3) I'm doing SHOUTcast audio and not files, so I can't just
switch to
the native * mp3 player.

I tried with mpg321 which does play the stream cleanly
without skips or
choppiness, but it's very low pitch which I found out is due
to mpg321
not being able to output in the correct format.

I have Zaptel (with ztdummy) loaded and it improved a little
bit, but
not a whole lot. Music on hold from the native mp3 player
comes through
fine so it's not a network, provider, or CPU issue. 

The sound of the "choppiness" is basically just
cutting in and out
every second or two. It's not super bad, but I'd really like
to get it
better if possible...or at least eliminate the 30-60 second
playing of
old stream data when initially putting anyone on hold before
doing a
hard cut to the current broadcast.

Thanks very much in advance for any suggestions or ideas.

-Mark

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On Sat, Oct 07, 2006, at 22:18:35 -0500, Mark Kane wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> 
> I've read all over about known problems with mpg123 and
MOH being
> choppy, but there are a few things different about my
situation:
> 
> 1) When on hold and having mpg123 play the stream, the
CPU usage on
> the box still shows ~93% idle. mpg123 shows up as 0.0%
usage and is
> quite a bit down from the top of `top`.
> 
> 2) Initially when putting them on hold, it plays
between 30 and 60
> seconds of old audio that was on the stream in the
past. Then after
> that 30-60 seconds, it does a hard cut into what is
currently playing
> (which sounds pretty bad).
> 
> 3) I'm doing SHOUTcast audio and not files, so I can't
just switch to
> the native * mp3 player.
> 
> I tried with mpg321 which does play the stream cleanly
without skips
> or choppiness, but it's very low pitch which I found
out is due to
> mpg321 not being able to output in the correct format.
> 
> I have Zaptel (with ztdummy) loaded and it improved a
little bit, but
> not a whole lot. Music on hold from the native mp3
player comes
> through fine so it's not a network, provider, or CPU
issue. 
> 
> The sound of the "choppiness" is basically
just cutting in and out
> every second or two. It's not super bad, but I'd really
like to get it
> better if possible...or at least eliminate the 30-60
second playing of
> old stream data when initially putting anyone on hold
before doing a
> hard cut to the current broadcast.
> 
> Thanks very much in advance for any suggestions or
ideas.
> 
> -Mark

Sorry, forgot to include what I'm running:

FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE
asterisk-1.2.9.1_2
asterisk-addons-1.2.3_1
zaptel-1.0
mpg123-0.59r_17

-Mark

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Drop mpg123 andinstall madplayer...

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Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 8:19 PM
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Subject: [Asterisk-bsd] SHOUTcast MOH Problems

Hi everyone.

I've read all over about known problems with mpg123 and MOH
being
choppy, but there are a few things different about my
situation:

1) When on hold and having mpg123 play the stream, the CPU
usage on the
box still shows ~93% idle. mpg123 shows up as 0.0% usage and
is quite a
bit down from the top of `top`.

2) Initially when putting them on hold, it plays between 30
and 60
seconds of old audio that was on the stream in the past.
Then after that
30-60 seconds, it does a hard cut into what is currently
playing
(which sounds pretty bad).

3) I'm doing SHOUTcast audio and not files, so I can't just
switch to
the native * mp3 player.

I tried with mpg321 which does play the stream cleanly
without skips or
choppiness, but it's very low pitch which I found out is due
to mpg321
not being able to output in the correct format.

I have Zaptel (with ztdummy) loaded and it improved a little
bit, but
not a whole lot. Music on hold from the native mp3 player
comes through
fine so it's not a network, provider, or CPU issue. 

The sound of the "choppiness" is basically just
cutting in and out
every second or two. It's not super bad, but I'd really like
to get it
better if possible...or at least eliminate the 30-60 second
playing of
old stream data when initially putting anyone on hold before
doing a
hard cut to the current broadcast.

Thanks very much in advance for any suggestions or ideas.

-Mark

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Frank Griffith wrote:
> Outgoing calls are working but I do see thess messages
on the CLI when I 
> make an outgoing call:
> 
> WARNING[27885]: translate.c:88 powerof: Powerof 0: No
power??
> WARNING[27885]: translate.c.133
ast_translator_build_path: No translator 
> path from gsm to unknown
> 
> These messages repeat several times but the outgoing
call at least works.

Same here I've been wondering what is this since todays
portupgrade, 
especially I have only ulaw enabled for all seep peers and
on all gateways.


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