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hey guys,

i am new to asterisks, i recently set up my first asterisk box, with a very simple dial plan, that answers  a call and plays one of the gsm sound files that comes with asterisk. My problem is that the sound quality of the played .gsm file is very poor.  can anyone say how i can fix this, i tried using a wav file,but asterisk says it cannot handle a wav file.

I am using asterisk 1.4 ,running on a ubuntu 8.04 server.


Bucky

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Jonn R Taylor <jonnt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rxfax is very unstable on 1.4. I would suggest that you use iaxmodem and hylafax.

Jonn

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg Koch
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 8:59 PM
To: asterisk-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: rxfax not receiving faxes

I have been using Asterisk with a fax machine flawlessly for quite some
time, but I want to move to a more digital kind of system.  I want to
use rxfax to receive the faxes, and then store them on the server in a
directory to be viewed by domain users via a website I will later
script.  The problem I am having is that the program does not actually
answer the fax and receive it.  I have looked just about everywhere for
ways to setup rxfax, and check for solutions to my problem.  Below you
will see my extensions.conf and the output from the cli as a fax is sent
in.

extensions.conf:
[incomming]
exten => _1XXXXXXXXXX,1,Answer
exten => _1XXXXXXXXXX,2,Playtones(ring)
exten => _1XXXXXXXXXX,3,NVFaxDetect(6)
exten => _1XXXXXXXXXX,4,Dial(SIP/7001,20)
exten => _1XXXXXXXXXX,5,Voicemail(7001@home)

exten => fax,1,Answer()
exten => fax,2,Playtones(ring)
exten => fax,3,Set(TIMEOUT(absolute)=3600)
exten =>
fax,4,Set(FAXFILE=/var/spool/asterisk-fax/${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)}-${CALL$
exten => fax,5,rxfax(${FAXFILE})
exten => fax,6,Hangup()

CLI output during fax transmission (I have replaced my number with X and
the calling number with x):
   -- Executing [15058964243@incomming:1]
Answer("SIP/1XXXXXXXXXX-007321b0", "") in new stack
   -- Executing [15058964243@incomming:2]
PlayTones("SIP/1XXXXXXXXXX-007321b0", "ring") in new stack
   -- Executing [15058964243@incomming:3]
NVFaxDetect("SIP/1XXXXXXXXXX-007321b0", "6") in new stack
[Jul  7 19:53:51] NOTICE[16137]:
/root/asterisk/agx-ast-addons/app_nv_faxdetect.c:219 nv_detectfax_exec:
Redirecting SIP/1XXXXXXXXXX-007321b0 to fax extension
   -- Executing [fax@incomming:1] Answer("SIP/1XXXXXXXXXX-007321b0",
"") in new stack
   -- Executing [fax@incomming:2] PlayTones("SIP/1XXXXXXXXXX-007321b0",
"ring") in new stack
   -- Executing [fax@incomming:3] Set("SIP/1XXXXXXXXXX-007321b0",
"TIMEOUT(absolute)=3600") in new stack
   -- Channel will hangup at 2008-07-08 02:53:51 UTC.
   -- Executing [fax@incomming:4] Set("SIP/1XXXXXXXXXX-007321b0",
"FAXFILE=/var/spool/asterisk-fax/20080707-195351-1xxxxxxxxxx.tif") in
new stack
   -- Executing [fax@incomming:5] RxFAX("SIP/1XXXXXXXXXX-007321b0",
"/var/spool/asterisk-fax/20080707-195351-1xxxxxxxxxx.tif") in new stack
[Jul  7 19:53:51] NOTICE[16137]: channel.c:2270 __ast_read: Dropping
incompatible voice frame on SIP/1XXXXXXXXXX-007321b0 of format slin
since our native format has changed to ulaw

 From what I am seeing here, it answers the call, detects the fax and
forwards to the fax exten, that exten then answers, plays the ring tone
until something else happens, sets the timeout, sets the fax file (that
dir is 755 asterisk asterisk), then it is supposed to receive the fax
and store it...  The sending machine simply says the call was not
answered.  It seems like all is going according to plan until it hits
RxFAX, then it does nothing.  Does anyone have any idea what is going on
here?  I have SpanDSP and everything compiled in the correct
directories, I've checked permissions at least a dozen times...  I'm
running out of ideas...  I still can't figure out what that notice is
really all about either!

I have tried making an internal extension for me to dial with a phone
with the same dialplan as the fax extension, the same thing happens.  It
answers, and then just sits there on RxFAX.

Help!!

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