[Asterisk-Users] Compiling Asterisk with G.723.1

[Tony Hoyle]

Achilles Bochoris wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I am relatively new to Asterisk and I need to compile the G.723.1 codec 
> for Asterisk. I downloaded the ITU source code, placed it in the codecs 
> directory, but apparently Asterisk needs a rather different library than 
> the one provided from ITU.
>  
> As I've seen in the mailing list archives, there are quite a few users 
> who were able to compile G.723.1 in *, so, could someone kindly share it 
> with me in order to be able to use this codec?
>  
There's one available but it's *very* expensive (read: 1.2 million 
dollars expensive for an unlimited license.  Even simple asterisk server 
is $30,000 per server).

http://www.dspg.com/technology/LicensePricing.html

Of course someone outside US could get this working (software patents 
are currently only a US phenomenon) but there's no way that it'd get 
into the asterisk tree as I believe digium are US based.

Tony

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