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

[Manoj_Rajkarnikar]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Steve Totaro wrote:

> Probably for the same reason that every popular piece of software can
> be found on torrents with serials and cracks, as well as hundreds if
> not thousands of sites that just offer serials or cracks to make
> "demo" software fully functional.

Totally agreed with it. But we are in the planning phase and are testing 
it. Eventually we would be getting ourselves requred license for the 
codec when we are ready for production use.

>
> I am not saying I agree with it but it is extremely common.
>
> Personally I would love to see Speex as an industry standard.

Would love to use it as primary codec but not much of the ATAs and IP 
Phones available here support it.

>
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Eric ManxPower Wieling
> <eric at fnords.org> wrote:
>> The G729 codec is neither open source, nor is it free, and the
>> license/patent does not make an exception for "educational use".
>>
>> The Intel LIBRARIES are free for educational/personal use, but the
>> license for that software says that you still need a license from the
>> G729 patent holder before use.
>>
>> I don't understand why people won't pay $10/channel for a fully
>> licensed, legal, and Asterisk supported G729 codec.
>>
>> Manoj_Rajkarnikar wrote:
>>> Greetings.
>>>
>>> I'm new to the asterisk & voip world and I'm currently trying out trixbox
>>> 2.6.0.7 on a p4 1.8 GHz box. I've downloaded and used the open source g729
>>> codec from site http://asterisk.hosting.lv/ and is working fine. question
>>> here is that this codec sends out a packet every 20ms. Though the speech
>>> quality is very good, I also like to try out 30ms sampling size to bring
>>> down the overhead payload and reduce bandwidth usage. I've searched for it
>>> for a couple days with no indication of how to do it. is it possible to
>>> change it. do i have to compile my own codec module.. or some patch to
>>> asterisk code?? Please suggest.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot.
>>>
>>> Manoj
>>>
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