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

[Mark Quitoriano]

that's my setting in my sip.conf but the codec is still randomize.

On 11/16/05, Andy Kuo <akuoca at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think you can specify the priority in sip.conf in the [general] section
>  disallow=all
> allow=g729
> allow=ulaw
> allow=alaw
> .
> .
> .
>  During call setup, Asterisk will negotiate for g729 first, if it's not
> available on the other end, it'll try ulaw next, then alaw...
>  I'm not sure what happens when your g729 license is used up. I'm assuming
> it should go on the next codec on the priority. Need to confirm on that. So
> far, we have morce g729 license than what we are using now.
>  Cheers.
> AK
>
>  On 11/15/05, Mark Quitoriano <markquitoriano at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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