[Asterisk-Users] Prices of g729 codec

[Kevin P. Fleming]

----- trixter aka Bret McDanel <trixter at 0xdecafbad.com> wrote:

> speex isnt in all ATAs and other things.  So if its not there it
> offers
> worse compression since the call wont go through :P

And it's not there because it is significantly more computationally intensive than G.729 (I don't believe there is a fixed-point Speex implementation either, although I could be wrong) so that means the hardware cost for the ATA/phone/etc. goes up.

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Kevin P. Fleming
Senior Software Engineer
Digium, Inc.