[asterisk-users] Issue in transcoding

[Steve Underwood]

On 06/02/2013 11:02 PM, Chris Bagnall wrote:
>
> On 2/6/13 2:01 pm, Muhammad Yousuf wrote:
>> I am trying to use asterisk as transcoder between voipswitch 2.0 and gsm
>> gateway. Voipswitch supports g723.1 but gsm gateway does not. Now I have
>> g723.1 codec in my asterisk. call leg from voipswitch is using codec 
>> g723.1
>> and call leg from gsm gateway is using codec gsm. I am having one way 
>> audio
>> and getting below mentioned warning. Asterisk version is 1.8.11.0
>
> Isn't g723.1 considered pretty poor quality these days? Can't you set 
> voipswitch to use something apart from that?
For a 5.3kbps codec G.723.1 is still pretty good, and I don't know 
another codec with a similar bit rate that is available on as many 
platforms.

Steve