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

[Pim van Stam]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 09:55 +1000, Hugh Blandford wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> thanks for the comments.  I was only really interested in g729 for our 
> remote phones, for staff working from home.  We run g711 in the office fine.
> 

That's the same as why I would like to use the G729. I prefer G711.

> Thank you Pim for confirming that it works on your setup.  Unfortunately 
> my experiences have been like Richards :-(
> 

Did you (and Richard?) use the register utility for FreeBSD 6.1? This is
in:
http://downloads.digium.com/pub/register/unsupported/FreeBSD-6.1/x86-32/

What error do you get? Eg. you need Internet access on the Asterisk
server you are registrating on.
The readme states that you need eth0 as NIC registrating from. That is
of course not the case on FreeBSD. I have 1 NIC on the server, which is
vr0.
Does the utility 'asthostid' give any output?

Regards,

Pim van Stam

> I will keep plodding.
> 
> Thanks all,
> 
> Hugh
> 
> 
> Richard Neese wrote:
> > 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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