[VoIP] Asterisk won't play sound (voice prompt) files

[Jack Ryan]

Hi John,

Asterisk is version 1.4.18. I downloaded, built and installed yesterday as a
way of "starting again". Asterisk started again but it did it silently
again.

The error is: "the file is not there."

So either asterisk is looking somewhere else (not in
/var/lib/asterisk/sounds) or the "find a compatible file type" logic doesn't
work. Either way I would have thought someone else would have the same
problem.

I don't like being special.

Jack


On 04/03/2008, John Novack <novackster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What is the version and release of Asterisk?
>
> Not sure about this, but MANY have had problems with Fedora Core X and
> it generally is troublesome in a number of ways.
> Search the Asterisk users list for details
> I can't be sure it relates to your present problem.
>
> CentOs is the same price and trouble free.
>
> John Novack
>
>
> Jack Ryan wrote:
> > I have since installed all sound file formats.
> >
> > Playback() and SayDigits() result in silence and the same error
> messages.
> > The logic of searching for an existing format seems to be common to all
> > sound output applications. Even so, I tried adding the file extension
> and
> > the complete path. The result is the same.
> >
> > Grrr
> >
> > Jack
> >
> > On 04/03/2008, Mark Rudholm <mark at rudholm.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Try downloading a ulaw or g721 file from the internet
> >> and see if it can play that (note that when you specify
> >> the filename in the Playback command, you'll have to
> >> include the filename extension, since that defaults to
> >> gsm).
> >>
> >> This way at least you can tell that your Asterisk can
> >> play files back into call channels at all.
> >>
> >>
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