[Asterisk-Users] G729, x-pro, and codec ordering

[Brian Wilkins]

Try setting the codec settings for each peer instead of under the general 
heading.

On Tuesday 07 December 2004 05:39 am, Paul Fielding wrote:
> I'm in the middle of getting g729 to work on my server and running into odd
> stuff.  The issue revolves around what appears to be a much talked about
> (but not seeming to be much solved) issue of selecting which codec gets
> used at a given time.
>
> I have two g729 licenses.  I'd like to be able to get asterisk to use g729
> (via x-pro) only when I want to, reason being that if I'm in a high
> bandwidth environment I'd rather have the higher quality of ulaw, but when
> I'm in a low bandwidth environment I'd like to select g729.
>
> There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to which codec gets chosen,
> and it seems to vary depending on whether the call is outgoing or incoming.
>
> And furthermore, turning off a codec in x-pro doesn't seem to do anything.
> For example, if I have:
>
> [general]
> disallow=all
> allow=g729
> allow=ulaw
> allow=alaw
> allow=gsm
> allow=ilbc
>
> and then dial out on x-pro, G729 is selected.   Then I turn off G729 and
> turn on g711u  (I make g711u the only black codec on the x-pro display),
> then make a call, the call is still made using G729.
>
> Further more, with the same settings if I call from a zap channel to the
> x-pro sip extension, the codec chosen is g711u, even though I might only
> have g729 enabled on x-pro, and even though g729 is the first one on the
> list above.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions, or can point me to something to read?
>
> regards,
>
> Paul
>
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