[asterisk-users] g729a compatibility

[Andres]

Elliot Murdock wrote:

>Hello Again!
>
>I'm back again.  I just checked the general settings in sip.conf and
>noticed that both the "disallow" and "allow" parameters are commented
>out.  I would assume this would allow all codecs, but this does not
>seem so.
>
>With this setup (ie both "disallow" and "allow" commented out),
>Asterisk allows only gsm, ulaw, alaw, h263 as stated as follows:
>
> [Jul  2 16:56:26] VERBOSE[13420] logger.c: Capabilities: us - 0x8000e
>(gsm|ulaw|alaw|h263), peer - audio=0x100 (g729)/video=0x0 (nothing),
>combined - 0x0 (nothing)
>
>When the setup is changed to disallow=all, and allow=alaw, allow=ulaw,
>and allow=g729 only then does Asterisk allow consider g729 as a usable
>codec.
>
>So are my suspicions correct  that by default, Asterisk only allows
>gsm, ulaw, alaw, and H263 and one needs explicitly allow also g729?
>
>  
>
Thats what the [general] section in sip.conf is for.  You define your 
default codecs there.

Andres
http://www.neuroredes.com

>Thanks you,
>Elliot
>
>  
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