[asterisk-dev] default format for sounds

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <20080922084739.GW4244 at xorcom.com>,
Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
> 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?

That would be a good starting point for a script to install the various
formats, but not as the only native format installed.

> 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.

If we want a single format to be installed by default on a system without
sox, I would vote for 8kHz slin in WAV format.

Cheers
Tony
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