[Asterisk-Users] the g729 situation

[Jeremy McNamara]

NuFone only had 3 G.729 licenses and when we went to add more it blew up 
our system and now we have none.  Anyways, we are not very fond of the 
VoiceAge licensing terms.  We prefer iLBC.


Jeremy McNamara





Thomas Moghnie wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> On the same note, I am having a problem with G.729, having 4 * 
> asterisk boxes 2 with 10 licenses and one with 2 licenses.
>  
> The licenses installs fine, but the codec doesn't work as supposed to 
> be. In path thru situation, where a UA (grandstream phone) is talking 
> to the * that is connected to NuFone over IAX/2 seems to work. But 
> when NuFone stopped supporting G729. The RTP path could not be 
> established (G729->*->SPEEX). However, the following scenario works 
> (G711/GSM->*->SPEEX)
>  
> Thanks for your help
>
> */Mark Spencer <markster at digium.com>/* wrote:
>
>     > Having purchased a license for 5 g729 channels on Digium's web
>     shop I
>     > thought registration and installation would be a snap. NOT.
>     >
>     > I followed registration instructions to the letter but it failed
>     with
>     > that message:
>     >
>     > ERROR! Your Internet connection is probably behind a proxy and the
>     > Registration program can't communicate with our server
>
>     You can call us for free support on G.729 if you purchased it from us.
>     877-LINUX-ME just choose "install support".
>
>     > Now I wrote to vonage as per the instructions further in the error
>     > message, requesting a certificate. I'm sure I'm not the only one
>     going
>     > through all these hoops.
>
>     I trust you mean "Voiceage" not "Vonage" but in any case neither will
>     likely be useful. Definitely should contact us directly.
>
>     > - is there a cracked g729 b inary out there? (which I plan to
>     use inside
>     > my license agreement)
>
>     Not as far as I know.
>
>     > - is it true that * has to be run with -c when using g729 ?
>
>     Yes, again we're trying to get Voiceage to fix the issue, but
>     working with
>     closed source, slow moving, intellectual property based vendors is
>     generally a pretty miserable experience.
>
>     Mark
>
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