asterisk users - Feb 2010 - Slightly OT: Has SILK codec gotten anywhere?

Hi, I stumbled upon mentions of a  "SILK" codec last night on skypes
"skype for sip" information page. I tried looking into it further and
found some blog and mailing list posts from 2009 but I can't find any
mentions of anything other than skype using the codec. Has the codec
not gotten anywhere so far?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SILK

Zoiper supports it in our wideband beta: 
http://www.zoiper.com/downloads/beta/Zoiper%20Communicator_Free_1.12wb2_Installer.exe
(the beta is a bit old though).

Cheers,

Zoa

On 2/20/2010 8:02 PM, Kyle Kienapfel wrote:
> Hi, I stumbled upon mentions of a  "SILK" codec last night on
skypes
> "skype for sip" information page. I tried looking into it further
and
> found some blog and mailing list posts from 2009 but I can't find any
> mentions of anything other than skype using the codec. Has the codec
> not gotten anywhere so far?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SILK
>
>

On 02/21/2010 02:02 AM, Kyle Kienapfel wrote:
> Hi, I stumbled upon mentions of a  "SILK" codec last night on
skypes
> "skype for sip" information page. I tried looking into it further
and
> found some blog and mailing list posts from 2009 but I can't find any
> mentions of anything other than skype using the codec. Has the codec
> not gotten anywhere so far?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SILK
>    
Skype took an extremely long time to start getting usable code into 
people's hands. It is starting to happen now, though. There seem to be 
several projects with support in the pipeline. Others may find the funky 
licencing a stumbling block. If the IETF codec works makes good progress 
its possible SILK will open up and be more widely usable.

Steve