[asterisk-users] g729 open source codec and sample size

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 08:32:15PM +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Bruce McAlister wrote:
> 
> > Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:
> >>
> >> I don't understand why people won't pay $10/channel for a fully
> >> licensed, legal, and Asterisk supported G729 codec.
> >
> > I wish I could use $10/channel G729 codec from Digium, however, I've
> > been trying to get that codec working on Solaris since v32 of that
> > codec. The codec fails to load no matter what I do, and troubleshooting
> > information from Digium (and the lists) is severly lacking. I do
> > understand that it is unsupported, however, I wonder if the people who
> > build the codec have successfully loaded the module within asterisk on
> > Solaris themselves. If I can get this working we would be buying the
> > digium codes without any questions at all.
> 
> And of-course some countries don't honour software patents anyway. This 
> may or may not be right in various peoples eyes, but that's the way it is.

Most of those countries still honour copyrights. Specifically the
copyrights to Intel's IPP code that is used in this codec.

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