[asterisk-dev] AST_FRAME_DIGITAL/3G video calls

[Klaus Darilion]

Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Klaus Darilion wrote:
> 
>> Yeah  - this would be great. Are there any official statements regarding 
>> AMR licenses from Digium (like they did with G.729)? For a single person 
>> it is impossibly to pay the setup fees and minimum fees for AMR licenses 
>> thus having an aggregation for the community is needed.
> 
> There are no official statements, but I can tell you that in general the
> patent licensing for codecs is quite difficult to accomplish, and we
> would need a quite significant demand for AMR codec licenses to even
> justify doing the research for it. Clearly the market penetration of
> G.729 made that an easy decision, but other codecs have far less demand.

Maybe penetration increases if we have agreed on a way to add 3G video 
to Asterisk :-)