[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and Speex

[John Chester]

At 12:41 AM 3/20/2004 -0600, Carlos Chavez wrote:
>      I have been trying out Asterisk with the speex codec with X-lite as a
>client.  I applied the REG patch on my windows machine that is recommended in
>Voip-info.org.  Every time I make a call I get the following error:
>
>codec_speex.c:167 speextolin_framein: Out of buffer space
>
>      If I do not hang up before 30 seconds, my machine then slows down and it
>can take up to 10 minutes to shut down.  Is speex worth the trouble?

I'm using Asterisk CVS-03/10/04-17:49:23 with Speex 1.0.3 on RedHat Linux 
8.0.  I get exactly the same error.

>      I am using Asterisk CVS-03/17/04-20:59:14 on Fedora Core 1 with Speex
>version 1.0.3.

My ears say Speex is worth the trouble.  One of my other careers is audio 
engineering; as a result, I'm very sensitive to compression artifacts.  To 
me, if you can afford a little bit of extra bandwidth for Speex, it sounds 
a *lot* better than gsm. (And IMHO gsm sounds a little bit better than 
G.729.)  I can't stand to listen to iLBC for more than 30 seconds.

However, I'm just getting started with *, and digging into the code to find 
out what's wrong here has not yet risen to the top of my priority 
list.  Until it does, I'm using gsm.

>--
>Carlos Chavez
>Computer Engineer, CCNA
>Corporativo Lacer S.A. de C.V.
>
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