Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] g729 and Ekiga

[thomas schorpp <thomas schorpp googlemail com>]

hi greenhorns,

Mark Ryden wrote:
> Hi, list,
>   I want to add that this subject is of much interest also to me. I
> would really
> appreciate if somebody could shed some light on g.729 and ekiga.

G.729 has patents pending and so cannot be distributed under most OSS-licences.

> AFAIK, there are some open source projects which support g.729 codecs.
> For example, asterisk (though I do not have experience with it).

Format support, Codec operation support requires buying a licence as You can 
RTFM of Asterisk.

> There are some more, which were mentioned in some posts in this mailing list
> in the past.
> So, anybody who has experience with g.729 and Ekiga, (good or bad), please
> share your experience with us.

There're better codecs, no one needs G.729.

> Rgs,
> Mark
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Andy Johnson <johnsonzjo gmail com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >  Is there support in Ekiga for g.729 audio codec ?

No. 

> > I saw some threads about it in the mailing list and on some other
> > places, but I am not
> > sure as whether this can be done or not.

Read the source code and G.729 specific tech+law docs.

> > I would appreciate if anyone who have any experience with it will share his
> > experience. If it is possible to use g.729, it would be great to post
> > here a step by step

We're not Your unpaid personal support engineers.

> > description of what should be done for achieving it.
> >
> > I see that in opal-3.6.6 , there is some support for g.729 (in
> > src/codec/g729mf.cxx)
> > but I am not sure what this means/

mf = media format, passthru, not codec operation implemented.

> > Regards,
> > AndyJ

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tom