[Asterisk-Users] How to check how many G729 codec licenseinstalled

[Mark Quitoriano]

hmmm... so there's no way i can prioritize g.729 before ulaw and alaw? i
just want to do is use all g.729 first if all g.729 already used now thats
the time ulaw will be used.

On 11/16/05, trixter aka Bret McDanel <trixter at 0xdecafbad.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 01:20 +0800, Mark Quitoriano wrote:
> > how can i force asterisk to use g.729 codec first. i try to call
> > outside sometimes the g.729 is being used sometimes not.
>
> Asterisk will negotitate based on your list of available codecs for a
> channel and the remote end points available codecs. If you set it to
> only g.729 and the other end doesnt support g.729 the call will fail.
>
> Keep in mind that g.729 takes more cpu than some other codecs. Take
> ulaw, while it uses quantinization it doesnt really compress (its
> arguable that quantinization is compression but that is a symantic
> argument more than anything). So its a trade off between cpu and
> network resources.
>
> If you truely want to force all calls to use g.729 or nothing only allow
> g.729 and disallow everything else. I do not think you will be happy
> unless you use only providers that support g.729 and have enough
> licenses available for every call that you make. If you directly
> connect to other servers that you dont know whether or not they do g.729
> or if your provider doesnt have enough g.729 licenses you may see both
> inbound and outbound calls fail from time to time.
>
>
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