[asterisk-users] Call Recording audio file quality query

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wednesday 09 February 2011 03:50:51 Sherwood McGowan wrote:
> Tilghman,
> 
> When you say "reformat the audio", do you mean sample rate and bits per
> sample, etc...or do you mean the format in which each packet of data is
> structured ? I just want to make sure I know which one I'd be dealing
> with if recording a call that was using one of the higher quality
> codecs that was metioned earlier.
> 
> I *think* you mean just the "structure" version of the format options I
> presented, because for example: Microsoft PCM (wav) files can be of
> varying "quality" levels (192Khz, 256Khz..8bit 16 bit 24...32)..This is
> true (as you know, I'm more than sure) of almost every audio file
> format...
> 
> So, is it "Structure of data/packets" or "sample rate, bitrate, etc' ?

That would be structure of data stored in the file.  At the point where the
file format comes into play, the samples are already in their final stage
of computation.  The only thing that remains is how the samples are wrapped
for storage.

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Tilghman