Sounds on local channels in Asterisk 1.6.1.0

Hello,

While running Asterisk version 1.6.1.0 I’ve
discovered that playing sounds on local channels
does not work anymore as it used to in Asterisk 1.6.0.5

The sounds are played poorly or not at all …
A simple test context would be

[default]
exten => 12345,1,Dial(Local/s@test)
exten => 12345,2,Hangup

[test]
exten => s,1,Playback(“vm-password”)

Activating the jitter buffer on the local channel did not help
(i.e. Dial(Local/s@test/nj) )

Has anybody encountered the same problem?
Is there any solution to this?

Thank you!

anyone? at least some opinion on this?