[asterisk-dev] Re: Note about mpg123

[Denis Smirnov]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 01:14:17PM -0400, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:

MR> 	True. But lots of users already have music for hold encoded in MP3.
MR> Converting it to native formats eats either storage space or CPU (on the
MR> fly conversion). And prohibits using streamed radio, like from a central
MR> LAN server, without extra conversion CPU.

disk space now cheap. And mp3 with lesser then 64k bitrate sounds very
poorly. Decoding mp3 to G.711 may use _less_ disk space.

MR> 	Does the current discussion indicate that Asterisk is moving away from
MR> supporting MP3 for MoH in future releases? Or just sticking with an
MR> obsolescent mpg123?

There is format_mp3 in addons.

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