[asterisk-users] receive faxes

[Steve Underwood]

On 05/05/2011 01:07 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Un-top-posting,
>
> On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:01:37AM -0400, vip killa wrote:
>> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Danny Nicholas<danny at debsinc.com>  wrote:
>>> *You are “Running before you learn to walk”!  You can’t make T.38 work
>>> (that’s ok, most other folks can’t either) but you want a free faxing
>>> solution that does multiple channels.  Get the Free license and make that
>>> work, then pay Digium the $10 (or whatever it is) for the ports you think
>>> you need once the darn thing works.*
>> screw that.... i just got hylafax to work with IAXMODEM...i refuse to pay
>> digium a dime... supposed to be open-source right?
> Asterisk's fax support has two backends. One of them is FFA mentioned
> above. The other uses Steve Underwood's SpanDSP library and is
> completely free (speech, beer, whatever). You don't want to pay from the
> proprietary one, use the free one.
>
> Naturally those cheap bastards at Digium wanted so badly that you buy
> their FFA that they didn't bother writing the SpanDSP backend. Hmm...
> well, it seems they actually did. Well, in that case they surely don't
> include it in the binary packages they produce. Hmmm... they actually
> do.
I've seen indications, such as at http://nerdvittles.com/?p=738 , that 
the spandsp support may not be working well these days. Can anyone 
comment on that, because all the bad stuff I've seen on this mailing 
list about FAX in 1.8 is breakage of FAX detect and the Digium FAX module?
> That is not to say IAXMODEM is not a cool project on its own. Certainly
> HylaFax+IAXModem is the right tool for certain scenarios, and a useful
> tool generally.
>
> Cheers,
>
Steve