<div dir="ltr">Hi Gabriel,<br><br>The problem I see is that g729 is protected by very expensive patents.<br><br>If FreeSWITCH were to encode their sound files in g729, they would <br>have to pay a base fee of at least 10 or 15 thousand dollars (that's last time i <br>
checked, and i don't recall if this is a yearly payment or not), plus a smaller fee <br>for each file they encoded, and would likely have to pay an additional fee each <br>time the files were downloaded.<br><br>You may have to do the encoding yourself on this one... <br>
<br>Once they are encoded, the plan sounds feasible.. I don't know the status on<br>g729 in FreeSWITCH though.<br><br>-lc<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Gabriel Kuri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gkuri@ieee.org">gkuri@ieee.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I've pretty much standardized on using g729 as the codec of choice for<br>
the users connecting to my FS installation, primarily due to the users I<br>
have that are on very slow connections and all of my carriers support<br>
g729, so no need to transcode.<br>
<br>
The sounds files that comes with FS are raw PCM files. Since FS is<br>
unable to currently transcode to/from g729, is there any way to use<br>
sounds files that are in the g729 format, such that it is technically<br>
still "pass-through" on the FS side and no transcoding is required?<br>
<br>
Ideally, I'm looking to install pre-coded g729 files for voicemail and<br>
have FS playback those files when someone logs into voicemail. I haven't<br>
tried simply replacing the files in the sounds directory, what I would<br>
prefer is to have a separate directory structure with g729 sound files<br>
and have FS detect the codec in use and automatically playback the files<br>
for the appropriate codec?<br>
<br>
Thanks Much...<br>
<br>
Gabriel Kuri<br>
<br>
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