[asterisk-dev] dvossel: trunk r239712 - in /trunk: ./ apps/ main/

[Russell Bryant]

----- "John Todd" <jtodd at digium.com> wrote:

> Might there be a better way to do this?  If the user tries to send  
> silence for G.729, as an example, and has no G.729 licenses installed,
> then this will fail, correct?  Same with any other codec that is being
> handled through but does not exist on that system.

Correct.

> Would it not be useful to just (repeatedly) send one of the pre- 
> recorded "sounds/silence" files in the appropriate pre-generated codec
> form?  This would eliminate any transcoding issues.  Those files are 
> part of the standard sounds distribution, and we might even consider 
> adding them into the baseline distro since they are not language  
> specific.

This would certainly be a better way.  It's just a bit more complicated to implement.  I will get this written down as an enhancement to work on at some point.

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Russell Bryant
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