[Asterisk-Users] compression quality of wav voicemail attachments

[Mark Spencer]

Actually I'm considering dropping mp3 codec support from Asterisk (of
course, we would still keep the "music on hold" and so on which use
mpg123).  The reason is that mp3 is relatively expensive (even in decode)
and isn't really appropriate due to its large frame size and high bit rate
for telephony.

Mark

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, John Harragin wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, has anyone been working on adding ogg or mp3 encoding
> to voicemail? Lame sounds quite good at low bit rates. Anyway, either of
> these would probably be good for the email message distribution.
>
> John
>
> >> It appears that the pharsing for the wav49 extension which is .WAV isn't
> >> correct in app_voicemail.c. I can't attach the wav49 format although gsm
> and
> >> wav work fine.
>
> >What about just putting "WAV" instead of wav49?
>
>
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