[asterisk-users] conversion?

[Joshua Colp]

Hans Witvliet wrote:
> Hi,

Hola,

> Perhaps can someone tell me if i had the wrong expectancies....
>
> If one sip-clinet only supports GSM-codec, and another only supports
> g711-U, they still can call each other and asterisk does the transcoding
> Correct?

If codec_ulaw and codec_gsm are both loaded, yes. These are built by 
default and auto loaded by default so they should be.

> If i try to do the same with an AV-call, (one only h264, the other only
> h263) there is no video-transcoding, and you get an audio-call only.

Correct.

> Sure, video transcoding is probably horrible CPU-expensive, but is what
> i see correct (on a 1.8 system)?

Yes, there is no capability for video transcoding in any version of 
Asterisk.

Cheers,

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Joshua Colp
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