[asterisk-dev] iLBC codec

[Andrew Latham]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Steve Underwood <steveu at coppice.org> wrote:
> On 07/12/2011 11:50 PM, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>>
>> On 07/12/2011 10:10 AM, Klaus Darilion wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I just stumbled about
>>> https://sites.google.com/site/webrtc/ilbc-freeware
>>>
>>> Has somebody checked the new license? Maybe this would allow Asterisk to
>>> include ilbc codec again in the Asterisk sources and build it by default.
>>
>> We have not taken the time to review the new license, no. There is so
>> little demand for iLBC to be included directly in the Asterisk code that it
>> hasn't seemed like it would be worth the effort. If someone out there wants
>> to review the license and give us an initial assessment of whether it
>> appears to be GPLv2 compatible, that would be a helpful start.
>>
> On the mailing list for Opus the subject of iLBC has come up a couple of
> times, and people like Cisco said iLBC is heavily used in numerous
> commercial applications. None of the open source VoIP software seem to find
> much demand for it. Interesting difference. The floating point source code
> which GIPS published in the RFC is quite slow, and can potentially be
> speeded up quite a lot. Demand is so low that nobody has ever asked me to
> attempt that. I suspect Cisco may be shipping lots of copies, just because
> iLBC is part of the cable VoIP spec, but I think people don't really use it.
>
> Steve

Like Steve says, it is a listed feature, but rarely implemented...
Can anyone give an example of a system that requires this codec and no
other?

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