[Asterisk-Users] Setting the jitter buffer in AIX

[Steve Kann]

On May 7, 2005, at 11:44 PM, Bryce W Nesbitt wrote:

> Are these things possible?
>
> 1) Set the local Asterisk jitterbuffer size, but only for a particular 
> connection.  I'd like to force Asterisk to use a particularly large 
> buffer in certain cases.  Should I expect this to work?
>
> [general]
> jitterbuffer=no
> register => username:password at parcelfarce.domain.net	;parcelfarce
> register => username:password at iaxtel.com		;iaxtel
>
> [parcelfarce]	;connection to parcelfarce
> type=friend
> auth=md5
> secret=password
> context=inbound-from-parcelfarce
> host=parcelface.domain.net
> qualify=yes
> jitterbuffer=yes
> maxjitterbuffer=600


I don't think so -- I think maxjitterbuffer applies globally.

> 2) Set the remote jitterbuffer.  I want to tell the remote Asterisk 
> that, during this call or part of a call, that a much larger jitter 
> buffer is OK.  Basically I care more about quality of the delivered 
> sounds, rather than latency.

Nope.

>
> 3) Monitor the remote jitter buffer discards.  I want to know if my 
> outgoing stream is breaking up.

The new jitterbuffer in CVS-HEAD provides this functionality, via IAX 
RR (receiver report) IEs, and you can monitor these via "iax2 show 
netstats" from the CLI or Manager.

-SteveK