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

[Mark Ryden <markryde gmail com>]

Hello,

Thanks a lot for you answer, Thomas!

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

I just wonder, can you please tell us shortly, which codecs do you
consider to be better than g.729 ?
rgs,
Mark



On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:45 PM, thomas schorpp
<thomas schorpp googlemail com> wrote:
> 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
>
> y
> tom
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