[asterisk-dev] default format for sounds

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
Mon Sep 22 03:47:39 CDT 2008


On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 08:34:17AM +0000, Tony Mountifield wrote:

> There is already a degree of quantization loss in G.711. The highest
> quality departure point would be 16-bit PCM with a higher sample rate,
> ideally a multiple of 8kHz (or 16kHz for G.722).
> 
> I keep the masters of my own sound set as high-sample-rate WAVs, and
> have a simple script that uses sox to produce 8kHz .wav, .al, .ul and
> .gsm versions. Disk space to store them is plentiful nowadays.
> 
> It would be great if the same approach could become the default in the
> makefiles.

So do you vote for slin16?

One thing that troubles me in this approach is that I want the system
installed from the defaults to work well, even without sox scriptary 
applied.

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