25 May
2005
25 May
'05
9:19 p.m.
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 04:55:29PM -0400, M P Smoak wrote:
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 13:18, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
wrote:
asterisk is a complete open
source PBX (private branch
exchange) solution. With the approriate hardware it can handle
connections both to the plain old/public switched telephone
network as well as voice over the internet. I'm shooting for a system on my
Planet workstation that I can
use to support a team who are probably all windows users. We have
no problem connecting to the phone network; we pickup the handset
on our desk phone or our cell phone. We conference call now.
What it's looking like now is I'll use ogg files. Record, balance,
shrink. Requires my folks to get winamp; no big deal. I'm still
a unixnewbi but I think try to make a script that will somewhat
automate the sequence and handle the call loging and history.
It's not quite exactly what you need, but check out mpgmover. It's
available from cvs on techweb:
http://techweb.rfa.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=88&…
written in python. RFA uses it to automatically convert mp3s uploaded
via ftp to the proprietary format of our editing system. The encoders
and decoders could be swapped out without too much pain as it just runs
mpg123 and lame or toolame.
Eventually this will probably become oggmover or something like that.
For logging and history maybe actual-x could be useful to you. track-x
may be overkill and is geared more toward broadcast scheduling/logging.
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 12:55:18PM -0400, M P
Smoak wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 May 2005 04:14, Mario Lang wrote:
> > M P Smoak <smoak(a)mis.net> writes:
> > [...]
<snip>
> > > to keep minutes of the meeting.
> > > Right now we have need to replace the tape recorder with
> > > a linux recorder. So I've hooked-up the old RadioShack
> > > adapter to mic in for the SBlive and have experimented
> > > with reZound (ver 0.11.1beta), one channel using qamix.
> > > And it works; a 10 minute .rez file is about 100 meg, a
> > > shows an large difference in loudness between the local
> > > and remote callers, as expected.
Please note that the difference in
loudness is not my major concern;
size and cross platform use is.
I'D suggest asterisk. IF you can manage to route
your
conference call through asterisk, you can nicely record
calls with gsm compression. The resulting files are small,
and the sound quality is good, and you get the same
loudness for both ends...
Am I confused or are you? Isn't asterick for
internet
telephone servers? We are not setting up a server or
interested in internet telephone. We want to use record
from conventional phones on desktop computers, not servers.
I just don't see where asterick could apply. And I can hope that others on our team can have a
similar ability
on their windows systems; Audacity is cross platform and works
well on my system. (and I wonder: should I go mp3? sigh..)
Audacity is indeed cross-platform. It is beginning to be used here as a
cooledit replacement.
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