asterisk + mpg123 packages

[Lee Azzarello]

On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 01:37 +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:09:02AM +0200, harry gaillac wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I installed asterisk and mpg321.
> > 
> > Though asterisk suggest mpg123 Debian provide mpg321
> > package from http://mpg321.sourceforge.net/ (including
> > mpg123).
> > mpg123 command don't work with asterisk !
> > 
> > I download mpg123 Vesion 0.59r from
> > http://www.mpg123.de/cgi-bin/sitexplorer.cgi?/mpg123/
> > according to
> > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+config+musiconhold.conf
> > 
> > Now asterisk is able to play music on hold .
> 
> mpg123 is availble from non-free. If this is for your personal use, just
> get the package from there.
> 
> If you want to distribute it, and notice that the homepage of mpg123
> says it is GPL, you'll notice
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=292260
> 
> I've exchanged some emails with the author. He plans to eventually
> release a new version which will properly have a different license.
> Maybe it will be good enough for me to start redistributing it. But I
> figure I'll try to work around the extra CPU load of that MOH decoding
> anyway.

I'd be interested in using ogg/vorbis as the internal format for MOH
since it has no restrictive licences. There is already a patch for
Asterisk CVS:
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2005-May/012718.html

I haven't tested it but will soon as my development server is almost
ready.

-lee