[asterisk-users] is silk included in asterisk 11?

[Jonathan Rose]

Jonathan Rose wrote:

> Sean Darcy wrote:
> 
> > I'm building asterisk 11 beta 2. I've been using silk a lot. I
> > don't
> > see
> > silk listed in menuselect as a codec. But I also don't see an
> > asterisk
> > 11 silk codec on
> > http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/codec_silk.
> > 
> > Do we use the asterisk 10 codec_silk.so ?
> > 
> > sean
> 
> https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+10+Codecs+and+Audio+Formats
> 
> See the bottom blurb in particular --
> 
> * The SILK licensing, like the licensing for Polycom's Siren 7
> G.722.1 and Siren 14 G.722.1C codecs, requires that the distribution
> of binary codec modules that can be used by Asterisk. To download
> the SILK codec module for Asterisk, browse to
> http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/codec_silk/unsupported/asterisk-10.0/
> and drop the untar'd .so file into /usr/lib/asterisk/modules and
> issue an Asterisk restart, or simply load the codec module from the
> Asterisk CLI
> 
> Actually, it seems that link provided is a little incorrect and the
> actual codec modules are available here:
> http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/codec_silk/asterisk-10.0/
> 
> These modules are actually compiled for Asterisk 10 rather than 11,
> but the architecture for codec translators remains largely
> unchanged, so I would guess it'll probably work. Probably.

I've been informed that this probably won't actually work due to other
changes that were probably made in resources that codecs tend to rely
on, so take the above with a grain of salt. However, I'm also hearing
that a SILK codec for 11 may be released once 11 is out of beta.