[Asterisk-Users] Still unable to use g729 codec... please HELP

[Rich Adamson]

> > Ok. Thanks a lot anyway. BTW, do you know how many g729 licenses I 
> > need in this situation? Maybe 1 is not enough. Maybe I need 2: 1 for 
> > decoding and one for encoding.
> >
> > RODOLFO
> 
> As the documentation states, you need 1 license for each instance of 
> g729 in use.  That license is used to either encode, decode, or both.

The problem that many of us have with the above statement is trying
to figure out exactly what "instance" happens to mean. Past postings
have suggested that an instance may be required when listening to
vm (under some circumstances), while gsm files are played to certain
calls, while a real call is in progress, etc, etc.

Since the term is very ambiguous for most users, purchasing one or two
licenses is likely to create unresolvable problems. We purchased ten
licenses even though our best guess was that we'd only need a couple.
Haven't had a problem with it at all. :)

Rich