On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 03:46:41PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quick question - what is the point of speex? Do we really need it as an > option?
Three points: 1. some nice features, see http://speex.org/ . Some are unique. Though not all are applicable to transcoded usage with Astrisk. 2. Like other codecs from Xiph.org (vorbis, theora, flac, the ogg container), it is probably the most patent-free of the decently-compressed codecs. 3. It is really handy when you want to stress the CPU. gsm requires much more calls to get to the same load level :-( Thus you'll typically find it in soft phones. You should expect it to give better quality than gsm. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
