[Asterisk-Users] Unable to forward voice

[Eric Wieling]

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 09:36, administrator tootai wrote:

> Third party only accept g723 or g729. No solution (or buy a g729 
> license)? What's the reason to not convert to g723?

Because the patent holders of the G723.1 patents do not want to license
their technology for a reasonable fee.  

Here is the licensing pricing info for G723.1 direct from the patent
holder's web site: http://www.dspg.com/technology/LicensePricing.html

The patent holders for G729 are not exactly nice people, but at least
they license their patents for a reasonable fee.  That's why you can
purchase the G729 codec for Asterisk, but not the G723.1 codec.

This is covered over and over and over again in the mailing list
archives.


--Eric
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