[asterisk-dev] format_xxx required?

[Ian Hailey]

Tilghman Lesher wrote:

>On Thursday 11 January 2007 04:25, Ian Hailey wrote:
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>>I have created a new codec (i.e. codec_xxx.so) for Asterisk and would
>>like to know if I need to also create a new format module (i.e.
>>format_xxx.so) supporting the new format? Do the format_xxx.so modules
>>just provide file support for the different formats (e.g. the
>>format_gsm.so allows Asterisk to save or read data from files in GSM
>>format)?
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>That is correct.  The codec_*.so files provide translations from and to a
>particular codec, while the format_*.so provide a method by which to store
>frames from a particular codec to files on disk.
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Thanks Tilghman,

So I am also correct in assuming that I do not need to implement the 
format_xxx.so as I am not insterested in saving this data to a file. In 
general is this saving to a file used when performing a monitor for example?

Ian.