[Asterisk-Users] A question on codec translation.

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Tom Lowe wrote:

>If the incoming and outgoing Codecs are the same, there is no
>"conversion" done.  It basically becomes a packet relay, what goes in,
>comes out.
>
>I'm not sure of the answer to your second question.  However, your
>question actually begs a question I've been wondering about in the last
>couple of days:
>
>I'm doing H.323 in, H.323 out....simple relay.  (This is my customer's
>requirement...not my preference).  What I want to do is ALWAYS use the
>same codec for the outgoing leg as for the incoming leg.  In other
>words, if the call comes in as G.729, the outgoing call uses G.729 ONLY.
>If the incoming call is G.711, I want the outgoing to be G.711.   I want
>to avoid any sort of transcoding.
>
>Is it possible?
>
This is more or less what my question was getting at.. will the system 
be able to identify that it can connect the second leg using the same 
codec that the call came in on and so use that codec without transcoding??

later..