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

[sean darcy]

On 09/25/2012 11:49 AM, Jonathan Rose wrote:
> 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.
>

OK. I'll wait on 11 for the silk codec.

Thanks for the quick response.

sean