On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Steve Edwards
<[email protected]> wrote:
I strongly suggest using an existing library for the language of your
choice.
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011, A E [Gmail] wrote:
Copy that. Not planning to write an AGI script in bash actually...it
will be written in C# running on a remote system.
How / what is the best way to stream audio files (not MOH/Internet
Radio/TV and what not) inside a dialplan using AGI without comprising
performance/adding latency too much.
Well, C# means you're getting your data from a Windows host, so I'd fix
that first :)
Without knowing all the details, the options I see are:
) Transfer the file using HTTP, FTP, SCP, etc. You'll have to wait until
the entire file is transferred before you can start playing.
) 'Stream' the file using a shared file system like NFS or Samba. If the
'source' and 'target' hosts are on different continents this may not be
practical. If they are in the same rack...
) Stream the file using a custom application. app_playback.c is only about
550 lines (1.8.0) which includes all the standard application
'boilerplate' for help, cli interface, loading, unloading, etc. as well as
all of playback's little buddies like SayAlpha, SayDigits, SayNumber, etc.
so a custom application cribbed from app_playback.c should only be 100
lines or so.
Sometimes you can be a little bit 'sneaky' and hide uncomfortable waits in
your 'caller experience.'
Many years ago, I built an Asterisk system that needed to authorize a
credit card transaction before delivering content (aka adult chat). The
boss was a real picky SOB (we're still good friends) and always complained
about the smallest interruption in the 'caller experience.'
My solution was a multi-threaded AGI where one thread did the credit card
thing while another thread played 'please hold while we authorize this
transaction -- and get ready for a great time.'
By the time the prompt finished, the response was back from the credit
card processor and the process appeared (to the caller) to be
instantaneous.
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