asterisk users - Nov 2005 - PSGW 2.2 Skype gateway?

Has anyone else on list tried this yet? I bought the personal edition
and would like to compare experience with others. The vendor is
www.rsdevs.com.

In general the application does what it promises. It receives Skype
calls through an actual Skype client, then uses a "virtual audio patch
cord" to forward that call to a SIP device.

Call quality is ok, but it seems to add considerable latency. I suspect
that the call is fully decoded back to analogue (or maybe not quite
that far) on one of the audio devices in the OS, then encoded into SIP
for the outbound leg. That would imply additional delay in all cases.

Michael Graves 
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2005/11/17, Michael Graves <mgraves@mstvp.com>:
> Call quality is ok, but it seems to add considerable latency. I suspect
> that the call is fully decoded back to analogue (or maybe not quite
> that far) on one of the audio devices in the OS, then encoded into SIP
> for the outbound leg. That would imply additional delay in all cases.
It uses the skype api, then is the api (the skype propietary client)
who decodes the sound (adding some latency). Then the sip part may be
including some extra latency. It sould use a low latency codec,
compression is not needed in a local machine...

But there is a big problem with this program: it needs windows to run,
adding failure point to the circuit... and then needing of an extra
machine only for acting as gateway: bad solution.

I think we will need to wait until someone hacked the skype
protocol... If there is someone interested on doing it.


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Alejandro Vargas