[asterisk-dev] AST_FRAME_DIGITAL

[Sergio Garcia Murillo]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tilghman Lesher" <tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com>
To: "Asterisk Developers Mailing List" <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] AST_FRAME_DIGITAL


> On Friday 07 September 2007 05:50:37 Klaus Darilion wrote:
> > I have some problems with digital zap calls (unrestricted digital data)
> > which gets transcoded by Asterisk. I think the most elegant fix would be
> > to add a new frame type AST_FRAME_DIGITAL which means that the data is
> > any digital data and Asterisk MUST NOT touch this data in any kind.
> >
> > What do you think about adding this to Asterisk and extend chan_zap to
> > use AST_FRAME_DIGITAL instead of AST_FRAME_VOICE for digital calls?
>
> If you don't want Asterisk to handle that data at all, why are you queuing
it
> up in the first place?  Seems like refusing to queue the frame at all
solves
> the issue brilliantly.

I think you have not undertood the problem. We want asterisk to handle the
frames
but without processing them, so no transcoding, echo cancelling, etc, is
done on it.
Just transport the data from one end to the other end without even
knowing/caring
what it's transporting.

Best regards
Sergio