[asterisk-dev] Transcoder Cards - Off the wall question

[Russell Bryant]

On Oct 22, 2008, at 7:21 PM, Gregory Boehnlein wrote:

> Just an off the wall question..
>
> Can I run TCB transcoder cards in an Asterisk box along side the  
> software
> codec? I.E. is Asterisk smart enough to be able to realize that has  
> run out
> of hardware transcoding resources and switch to using software  
> transcoding?
>
> Or is it an either/or proposition?


IIRC, you should be able to use them at the same time.  Asterisk will  
choose the hardware transcoder until it is full, and then will fall  
back to the software one.

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Russell Bryant
Senior Software Engineer
Open Source Team Lead
Digium, Inc.