[Freeswitch-users] wav files compression

[Steve Underwood]

On 10/04/2009 02:17 AM, Diego Viola wrote:
> I see, does Ogg/Vorbis have the same problem?
Yep. Anything designed for general purpose audio is going to be a poor 
choice when you want to achieve compact storage of narrowband voice.

> Diego
>
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Steve Underwood <steveu at coppice.org 
> <mailto:steveu at coppice.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/04/2009 01:07 AM, Diego Viola wrote:
>     > Why is not recommended?
>
>     Square peg. Round hole.
>     > On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Brian West <brian at freeswitch.org
>     <mailto:brian at freeswitch.org>
>     > <mailto:brian at freeswitch.org <mailto:brian at freeswitch.org>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     MP3 is NOT recommend and if WAV files are too large you can
>     mosey on
>     >     down to the local Best Buy and snag 1.5TB of disk for like $119
>     >     dollars.  Disk is cheap.
>     >
>     >     /b
>     >
>     >     On Oct 3, 2009, at 1:44 AM, Keith Wood wrote:
>     >
>     > >
>     > > I am working on an implementation for managing thousands of IVR
>     > > within an organization.  Right now, I am storing all audio
>     files in
>     > > wav format, but it quickly become unmanagable because the size of
>     > > these wav files ( 8 bits mono ) quickly consuming a lot of the
>     disk
>     > > space.
>     > >
>     > > Is there anyway I can store those audio files and still have high
>     > > quality audio for IVR?  I know mp3 is smaller but freeswitch does
>     > > not support it.
>     > >
>     > > any ideas?
>
Steve