Bug#996402: asterisk-modules: MP3 playback does not work due to incompatibility with mpg123

[Jens Bürger]

Package: asterisk-modules
Version: 1:16.16.1~dfsg-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: jbuerger at arcor.de

Dear Maintainer,



   * What led up to the situation?

Upgrading a system from buster to bullseye.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

The system in question makes use of MP3Player and Playback in its dialplan to
playback MP3 files. After upgrading to bullseye, the same application/files being
played back only led to a terrible noise instead of the expected audio.

I found this solved issue at Asterisk:

https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29635

Apparently, newer mpg123 versions (as the one currently part of the Debian repo)
have 32 bits default outpout, whereas Asterisk expects 16 bits. This can be
solved by adding a respective option to the call of mpg123.

This has been solved in Asterisk 16.21 by a little change to app_mp3.

Please consider applying the patch, because, currently, using the "stock" Asterisk
and mpg123 as provided in bullseye leads to non-working MP3 playback
functionalities in Asterisk.

Kind regards,
Jens



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.1
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU thread)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages asterisk-modules depends on:
ii  libasound2                        1.2.4-1.1
ii  libc6                             2.31-13+deb11u2
ii  libcurl4                          7.74.0-1.3+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0                      2.66.8-1
ii  libgmime-3.0-0                    3.2.7-1
ii  libgsm1                           1.0.18-2
ii  libical3                          3.0.9-2
ii  libiksemel3                       1.4-3+b2
ii  libjack-jackd2-0 [libjack-0.125]  1.9.17~dfsg-1
ii  libldap-2.4-2                     2.4.57+dfsg-3
ii  liblua5.1-0                       5.1.5-8.1+b3
ii  libneon27-gnutls                  0.31.2-1
ii  libodbc1                          2.3.6-0.1+b1
ii  libogg0                           1.3.4-0.1
ii  libportaudio2                     19.6.0-1.1
ii  libpq5                            13.4-0+deb11u1
ii  libradcli4                        1.2.11-1+b2
ii  libresample1                      0.1.3-4+b2
ii  libsnmp40                         5.9+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libspandsp2                       0.0.6+dfsg-2
ii  libspeex1                         1.2~rc1.2-1.1
ii  libspeexdsp1                      1.2~rc1.2-1.1
ii  libsqlite3-0                      3.34.1-3
ii  libsrtp2-1                        2.3.0-5
ii  libssl1.1                         1.1.1k-1+deb11u1
ii  libsybdb5                         1.2.3-1
ii  libunbound8                       1.13.1-1
ii  libvorbis0a                       1.3.7-1
ii  libvorbisenc2                     1.3.7-1
ii  libvorbisfile3                    1.3.7-1
ii  libxml2                           2.9.10+dfsg-6.7
ii  zlib1g                            1:1.2.11.dfsg-2

asterisk-modules recommends no packages.

asterisk-modules suggests no packages.

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