[asterisk-users] Issue with g729 codec

[Daniel Oakes]

Thanks for that.. finally tweaked where it might be...  my conference 
extension was the following

[conference]
exten => 4000,1,Answer
exten => 4000,2,Wait(1)
exten => 4000,3,DigitTimeout,5
exten => 4000,4,ResponseTimeout,10
exten => 4000,5,Authenticate(xxxx)
exten => 4000,6,SetVar(CALLFILENAME=${EXTEN}-${TIMESTAMP})
exten => 4000,7,Monitor(gsm,${CALLFILENAME},m)
exten => 4000,8,setvar(SIP_CODEC=alaw)
exten => 4000,9,Meetme(1234,Mp)
exten => 4000,10,Hangup()


Removing lines 6 through 8 freed up the licenses.  Just needed someone 
to tweak some possible config scenarios.

Thanks!!

Cheers,
Daniel


Chris Miller wrote:
> Daniel Oakes wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have a problem with conferencing, but it's more to do with the g729 
>> codec.  I have purchased six licenses for g729 for all our phones, 
>> and occasionally want to do conferencing, but at the moment it only 
>> allows two people in before the licenses run out.
>>
>> When two people are in the conference and I do a 'show g729' I get 
>> the following:
>>
>> *CLI> show g729
>> 2/6 encoders/decoders of 6 licensed channels are currently in use
>>
>> And when another person joins the conference they can listen but are 
>> unable to speak because all 6 decoders licenses are used up.  Any 
>> ideas at all from anyone how to fix??  It occurs with all the version 
>> I've tried from 1.0.7 to 1.2.1 1.2.7 and 1.2.10.
>
> I ran into a similar problem (running out of licenses) today, the 
> result was one way audio. Have you got call recording enabled on any 
> of the extensions that participate in the conference? I have two g729 
> licenses and ran out of licenses making a single call from a single 
> SIP device. Not sure (yet) why more than two encoder/decoders would be 
> needed to handle a single call with recording. There are similar 
> problems being reported recently on the Trixbox list, but it sounds 
> like they may be related to the Trixbox compile of the latest Asterisk.
>
> Regards,
>     Chris
>
>