asterisk users - Jul 2003 - G729 licensing

Hi,

I'm looking for a good codec to use on a personal VoIP setup. It is
strictly for my personal use, I'll never resell it, make money or it, or
whatever.

It seems a free personal-use G729 codec is available as a WIN32
library. I find it puzzling that at the same time one has to pay license
fees to use it under Linux, even non-commercially.

I was wondering -- am I missing something?

--J.
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Missing something?

No...

So far as I'm aware there is no freely available G729 codec available
that will run under Linux...  Kind of funny that there *is* one for
Windows, isn't it?

As an aside, though, what kind of equipment are you using, and what
circumstances are you communicating in?  ALAW & ULAW make great codecs
for use on a LAN.  :)

I've also had great luck using GSM with the Snom200 running the very
latest firmware.  (1.18s)  It's not yet posted on their website, but
they will give you a link to it should you write their support team...

Matt Hardeman
PaperSoft


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Hi,

I'm looking for a good codec to use on a personal VoIP setup. It is
strictly for my personal use, I'll never resell it, make money or it, or
whatever.

It seems a free personal-use G729 codec is available as a WIN32
library. I find it puzzling that at the same time one has to pay license
fees to use it under Linux, even non-commercially.

I was wondering -- am I missing something?

=2D-J.

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Voiceage has a free one.

Works good for s/w to s/w but I found it has a problem with s/w to h/w 
And so far they did not answer me.. I guess u get what u pay for /
? :)
..ya g.729 is a extreme $ play.


-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jan Rychter
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 10:31 AM
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] G729 licensing

Hi,

I'm looking for a good codec to use on a personal VoIP setup. It is
strictly for my personal use, I'll never resell it, make money or it, or
whatever.

It seems a free personal-use G729 codec is available as a WIN32
library. I find it puzzling that at the same time one has to pay license
fees to use it under Linux, even non-commercially.

I was wondering -- am I missing something?

--J.