[Asterisk-bsd] Anyone using g729 with Asterisk 1.4.7.1 or later?

[Richard Neese]

I tried 4 times on the g729 from digium for freebsd/asterisk and it would not 
register. it kept failing. and I gave up


On Tuesday 04 September 2007 10:34:07 am Pim van Stam wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 08:16 -0700, Richard Neese wrote:
> > the issue is the registration tool. they have yet to fix it and the codec
> > for 6.1 is old.  I could not get it to work on 1.4.10 asterisk and
> > freebsd 6.2-stable.
>
> This afternoon (CEST+1 +DST) I bought a license (2 channels). I'm using
> FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE and Asterisk 1.4.3 from ports. I downloaded the
> g.729 codec (i383, FreebSD 6.1 version) and the registration for
> FreeBSD. Registration succeeded and loading the codec succeeded to. The
> only issue is the path to install the license file. This has to be
> in /usr/local/share/asterisk in stead of /var/lib/asterisk when
> installing Asterisk from ports.
>
> I made a call with the G.729 codec to a landline, so transcoding was
> done. No problem. I will test the next couple of days, but so far so
> good.
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Pim van Stam
>
> > On Monday 03 September 2007 11:55:32 pm Kim Culhan wrote:
> > > On 9/3/07, Richard Neese <r.neese at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Monday 03 September 2007 01:45:22 pm Jeremy Bogan wrote:
> > > > > They do indeed support G711 and G729a.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sep 4, 2007, at 1:15 AM, "andy wang" <ypwangreg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > On 8/25/07, Hugh Blandford <hugh at island.net.au> wrote:
> > > > > >> Hi Richard and all,
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> thanks for the reply.  We are using Aastra 9133 and Cisco 7960s.
> > > > > >> Niether of which support anything other than g729 as far as I
> > > > > >> know.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I think both of them support G.711
> > > >
> > > > there is no g729 for asterisk on bsd now. digium says they no longer
> > > > plan to compile for bsd for 1.2 or 1.4.  There is a opensource g729.
> > > > I have Talked to digium about the g729 and bsd and they say we dont
> > > > now or ever have supported bsd. gotta love it.. the opensource
> > > > community supports us fine but digium them selves dont. we need to
> > > > work on a codec to replace this like speex but it means getting my
> > > > phone makers to support the other codecs. There is 1 phone I know of
> > > > that does ilbc and they are working to get speex and thats
> > > > grandstream.
> > >
> > > Digium has g.729 codecs for FreeBSD on their site:
> > >
> > > http://ftp.digium.com/pub/telephony/codec_g729/unsupported/asterisk-1.4
> > >/Fre eBSD-6.1/x86-32/
> > >
> > > The licenses cost $10/ea as they always have.
> > >
> > > This is not a problem.
> > >
> > > The unsupported part is the same as always; you can't call Digium with
> > > a codec problem and expect them to help fix it. This isn't any less
> > > support than you presently get
> > > for other problems with Asterisk on FreeBSD.
> > >
> > > regards
> > > -kim
> > >
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