Recording on bridge stopping while playing audio on channel

Hi all,

Problem faced
On a bridge (with bridge recording on) having a single channel, if I do file audio announcement using play ARI api on the channel, recording on the bridge is getting terminated.

Sequence of Operations
NOTE: everything is done using ARI APIs

  • Created a bridge on asterisk.
  • An Incoming call channel is answered (Media flowing both sides).
  • Added the channel to the bridge and start recording on the bridge. Things are working fine till now.
  • Now I play a wav file on the channel (using command: curl -s -X POST 'http://asterisk-uname:asterisk-pwd@:8020/ari/channels/10-1-242-121-1726581143.32/play?media=sound:/Recording/audio/Hindi_combo’). The announcement is audible at user.
  • After about 4 seconds of this announcement playing, we get the event “RecordingFinished”. Everything else works fine from here on, but recording is stopped at this point.

Observations:

  1. Two channels are created for recording rec-channel-id;1 and rec-channel-id;2
  2. Received warning on asterisk console logs (after about 4 seconds of playing announcement): WARNING[2947367][C-00000044]: app.c:1941 __ast_play_and_record: No audio available on Recorder/rec-channel-id;1??
  3. RecordingFinished is received for both the Recording channels created - rec-channel-id;1 and rec-channel-id;2

Versions and values
Asterisk version: Asterisk 18.11.1 built by root @ my-hostname on a x86_64 running Linux on 2024-02-26 06:00:44 UTC
Media file details:
$ soxi Hindi_combo.wav
Input File : ‘Hindi_combo.wav’
Channels : 1
Sample Rate : 8000
Precision : 16-bit
Duration : 00:00:14.62 = 116928 samples ~ 1096.2 CDDA sectors
File Size : 234k
Bit Rate : 128k
Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM

Relevant logs:
Attached
asterisk-detailed-log.txt (357.1 KB)

Similar topics:

The recorder in a bridge currently expects a consistent stream of audio. When you play audio to a channel in a bridge, it temporarily is suspended from the bridge and its audio no longer goes to the bridge resulting in the recorder leaving. You can file an issue[1] but there is no time frame or guarantee of resolution. A workaround would be to ensure there is always a source of audio in a bridge, such as temporarily adding another channel while doing playback.

[1] Issues ¡ asterisk/asterisk ¡ GitHub

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Thanks for the answer @jcolp. As a work-around, instead of playing on channel, we are now playing on bridge, and that seems to work fine as per our requirement.

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Thanks for the answer @jcolp. As a work-around, instead of playing on channel, we are now playing on bridge, and that seems to work fine as per our requirement.


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