asterisk users - Aug 2011 - use ILBC installed from asterisk yum repositories

I would like to try the ILBC codec on one of our systems.

The system is currently running Asterisk 1.8.5.0 installed from the
Asterisk provided repositories for Centos 5.

Is there a process for installing the ILBC codec under this
environment, or will I have to un-install the RPMs and build Asterisk
from source?

Thanks,
Bob

On 08/02/2011 11:42 AM, Bob Pierce wrote:
> I would like to try the ILBC codec on one of our systems.
>
> The system is currently running Asterisk 1.8.5.0 installed from the
> Asterisk provided repositories for Centos 5.
>
> Is there a process for installing the ILBC codec under this
> environment, or will I have to un-install the RPMs and build Asterisk
> from source?
There is no codec_ilbc RPM available from the Digium repositories at 
this point; there could be one in the future, but given that this is the 
first time I've seen a request for it, it seems unlikely to be worth the 
effort.

You can use the SRPM for Asterisk to rebuild the RPM after importing the 
iLBC source into the build tree; at least I think that would work.

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On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 11:42:19 -0500
Bob Pierce <westmanbob at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a process for installing the ILBC codec under this
> environment, or will I have to un-install the RPMs and build Asterisk
> from source?
You can write a short makefile for just codec_ilbc module, build it and
install it on your running asterisk system. You will have to install the
asterisk18-devel package and get the asterisk source code either from
a tar or from the srpm. If you are familiar with the basics of writing
makefiles its pretty trivial to write one that builds codec_ilbc, I have
done this in numerous systems that use the digium rpms and it works
flawlessly. This method can also be used to build other modules that
are missing from the digium rpms.

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