Not able to play wav files in asterisk

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Hello all,

I am trying to play .wav file using asterisk 1.8.7.1.  I tried playing the wav files having different properties.

The properties of the file can be seen using ‘file’ command or ‘ffmpeg -i ‘

1.  Filname: miss_audio.wav

[root@localhost en]# file miss_audio.wav

miss_audio.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, ITU G.711 mu-law, mono 8000 Hz

[root@localhost en]# ffmpeg -i miss_audio.wav

Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_mulaw ([7][0][0][0] / 0×0007), 8000 Hz, 1 channels, s16, 64 kb/s

I am getting the following warning in this case.

[Dec 24 15:08:47] WARNING[26513]: format_wav.c:92 check_header_fmt: Not a wav file 7
[Dec 24 15:08:47] WARNING[26513]: file.c:376 fn_wrapper: Unable to open format wav

2. Filename: msg0000.wav

This file is recorded using asterisk voicemail() application .

[root@localhost en]# file msg0000.wav
msg0000.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 8000 Hz

[root@localhost en]# ffmpeg -i msg0000.wav

Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_s16le ([1][0][0][0] / 0×0001), 8000 Hz, 1 channels, s16, 128 kb/s

And in this case  asterisk is trying to play the file in slin format.

  — Playing ‘msg0000.slin’ (language ‘en’)
[Dec 24 15:14:10] WARNING[26566]: app_playback.c:475 playback_exec: ast_streamfile failed on SIP/phone1-00000000 for msg0000
    — Auto fallthrough, channel ‘SIP/phone1-00000000′ status is ‘UNKNOWN’

[Dec 24 15:14:10] DEBUG[26566]: channel.c:2679 ast_softhangup_nolock: Soft-Hanging up channel ‘SIP/phone1-00000000′

Why does asterisk start playing the file in slin format.

I would be thankful if someone can guide me to the steps for playing the wav file in asterisk.

Regards,

Shalu

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5 Responses to “Not able to play wav files in asterisk”

  1. Israel Gottlieb said:

    Dec 26, 11 at 8:13 am

    that might be but if you take a pcm “ulaw” encoded file and name it “.wav”
    asterisk will throw that error
    I think asterisk should get smarter and read the header to get the format
    or whatever else is needed and not only the extension of the filename

  2. amit anand said:

    Dec 26, 11 at 8:05 am

    Hi

    File format is incorrect. First correct the format to 8000Hz, 16 bit mono
    PCM uncompressed. you can use wav pad sound editor to do the conversion.

  3. Steve Edwards said:

    Dec 26, 11 at 3:03 am

    Very bad advice.

  4. Tzafrir Cohen said:

    Dec 26, 11 at 5:52 am

    Asterisk prefers the payload to be signed-linear rather than mu-law.

    This message is, indeed, misleading.

    But this one is correct.

    I wonder if something along the lines of:

    sox orig.wav new.wav -s

    would do.

  5. Anonymous said:

    Dec 26, 11 at 2:32 am

    Rename the wav to ulaw
    Miss_audio.ulaw