[asterisk-users] Use the NEW ulaw/alaw codecs (slower, but cleaner)

[John Todd]

On Nov 11, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Steve Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 16:11 -0700, Wilton Helm wrote:
>> I'm a bit puzzled, also, having implemented ulaw and alaw in an
>> embedded application.  Each can be done with a 16 Kbyte table in  
>> about
>> 0 time with no errors.  There are probably tricks that will cut the
>> table down by 2 or 4 X for a small cost in CPU cycles.  The inverse
>> requires 256 16 bit words.  I thought ulaw and alaw were pretty much
>> no brainers.  I don't know of any gottchas.  Why anyone with more  
>> that
>> a few K bytes of total system memory would even consider anything
>> other than a lookup table is beyond me.
>>
>> Wilton
>
> Wilton--
>
> AFAIK, the current algorithms (old & new) are indeed table lookup.
> It wouldn't hurt for you to do a code review on them, you might
> be able to improve them...!
>
> murf



For those of you interested in a slightly longer discussion here,  
there is discussion (Nov 14) on the voip-users-conference about this  
and many other things:

http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=22622&cmd=tc

JT

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John Todd
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Asterisk Open Source Community Director