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

[Kevin P. Fleming]

John Todd wrote:

> The good news is that this now has a flag to turn this SLIN transcode  
> silence transmission on or off, so it is possible to avoid that  
> problem with addition of more complexity in configuration.  But if we  
> implement this patch now, and we do the patch later where we just send  
> pre-transcoded silence from a file (or even from a binary blob  
> embedded in a library, which seems like a better solution the more I  
> think about it - no filesystem access, and only a millisecond of  
> silence needs to be sampled) then we're setting ourselves up for  
> having to remove that option from the config files since it becomes un- 
> necessary.

The library would probably have complete frames (10, 20 milliseconds or
more) of silence, since some of the formats involved are frame-based and
it's not possible to send (or store) less than a full frame. It's still
a tiny amount of memory, though.

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