asterisk users - Jul 2006 - Issue with g729 codec

Hi All,

I have a problem with conferencing, but it's more to do with the g729 
codec.  I have purchased six licenses for g729 for all our phones, and 
occasionally want to do conferencing, but at the moment it only allows 
two people in before the licenses run out.

When two people are in the conference and I do a 'show g729' I get the 
following:

*CLI> show g729
2/6 encoders/decoders of 6 licensed channels are currently in use

And when another person joins the conference they can listen but are 
unable to speak because all 6 decoders licenses are used up.  Any ideas 
at all from anyone how to fix??  It occurs with all the version I've 
tried from 1.0.7 to 1.2.1 1.2.7 and 1.2.10.

Regards,
Daniel

Daniel Oakes wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a problem with conferencing, but it's more to do with the g729 
> codec.  I have purchased six licenses for g729 for all our phones, and 
> occasionally want to do conferencing, but at the moment it only allows 
> two people in before the licenses run out.
>
> When two people are in the conference and I do a 'show g729' I get
the
> following:
>
> *CLI> show g729
> 2/6 encoders/decoders of 6 licensed channels are currently in use
>
> And when another person joins the conference they can listen but are 
> unable to speak because all 6 decoders licenses are used up.  Any 
> ideas at all from anyone how to fix??  It occurs with all the version 
> I've tried from 1.0.7 to 1.2.1 1.2.7 and 1.2.10.
I ran into a similar problem (running out of licenses) today, the result 
was one way audio. Have you got call recording enabled on any of the 
extensions that participate in the conference? I have two g729 licenses 
and ran out of licenses making a single call from a single SIP device. 
Not sure (yet) why more than two encoder/decoders would be needed to 
handle a single call with recording. There are similar problems being 
reported recently on the Trixbox list, but it sounds like they may be 
related to the Trixbox compile of the latest Asterisk.

Regards,
	Chris

Chris Miller
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