On Tuesday 07 March 2006 16:15, Mark wrote: > Thirdly, I may well be flamed for this next part, however PART of the > problem MAY be Asterisk! Asterisk favors Native bridging unless > explicitly forced to do otherwise. After having worked with a variety of > media types over more thanb 25 years, I will say that less is best. In > other words, why use Asterisk Native bridging when it may not be the > highest quality call that you can deliver? There is really no reason in > most cases to pass the media through an asterisk box, unless you need to > transcode it.
Perhaps I am mis-reading your message, but native bridging *is* the best audio quality you can get if your Asterisk box has to stay in the middle. With a native bridge, the frames are essentially just passed on without any mucking about with them, giving you the lowest latency possible in the given situation. Unless you have notransfer=yes in your iax.conf or have given Asterisk reason to stay in the media path, Asterisk *will* do what it can to get the hell out of the path whenever possible. SIP may indeed be different; I do not have the requisite skills in SIP to talk about it. :-) -A. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
