[Asterisk-Users] Why Asterisk can't cope with silence suppression?

[Olle E. Johansson]

Peter Svensson wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Rob Scott wrote:
> 
> 
>>Why is it that Asterisk can't cope with silence suppression?
>>All the clients seem to be able to but not Asterisk.
>>What would be needed to get it to work with silence suppression?
>>What is the problem?
> 
> 
> Asterisk clocks outgoing rtp data to a device from the incoming rtp 
> stream from the same device. This is a known limitation and there has been 
> some talk about implementing an internal clocking system.
> 
> In addition, Asterisk should generate comfort noise when the rtp stream is 
> quiet due to silence supression (which is signalled with a CN packet). 
> Perhaps the new jitter buffer will be able to handle this?
Peter,
I think we do generate comfort noice in CVS head, even though the
clocking is still a major problem.

/O