I’m building an application which allows to dial via the Asterisk Manager Interface using the originate command. There should be an optional conferencing feature. So my attempt was basically:
Initial call:
Originate(Channel1, Extension1)
If another partner should be called:
Redirect(Channel1, Channel of Extension1, ExtensionConferenceRoom)
Originate(Channel2, ExtensionConferenceRoom)
This approach works but results in a bad sound quality after the redirect. The sound seems to be scrambled. Before redirecting the sound quality is quite well, of course. All extensions are called via SIP with the same codec, so no transcoding should occur.
The application used for the conference room is AppConference from http://sourceforge.net/projects/appconference/. But even with a simple destination application (e. g. PlayTones or Playback) the sound quality is as bad as with AppConference.
The bad sound quality arises only if the ExtraChannel parameter is given with Redirect. Without ExtraChannel the sound quality is still fine. But the second channel is hungup then of course, which is not intended.
These are the manager commands in detail:
[code]action: login
username: sdjklgdsjg
secret: 04864390
events: on
I don’t have a special setup. I’m using SIP with alaw (g.711). Maybe transcoding causes your bad sound quality. Have a look at the channel properties with “core show channel SIP/xxxx” while your channels are up. All available channels will be listed after “core show channels”. You’ll see which codecs are used and if transconding takes place.
To avoid transcoding try to set all codecs to the same value. In sip.conf for example:
[quote=“franzs”]
I don’t have a special setup. I’m using SIP with alaw (g.711). Maybe transcoding causes your bad sound quality. Have a look at the channel properties with “core show channel SIP/xxxx” while your channels are up. [/quote]
Well, hmmm. Trying to check, but just getting “No such command ‘core’ (type ‘help’ for help)”… What version are you running?
I found a workaround for this problem.