On Friday 24 April 2009 18:35:16 Atis Lezdins wrote: > > Secondarily, MPEG audio compression takes a lot of CPU. Until the last > > few years, desktop CPUs weren't even capable of doing realtime MPEG audio > > compression, which is necessary if you're going to have the recording > > ready by the time the audio input is terminated. Above and beyond that, > > even modern CPUs are limited in how many concurrent streams can be > > MPEG-compressed, which may cause problems if you're encoding multiple > > channels to MP3 at the same time. > > Well, actually it's lot of CPU for encoding 44kHz stream. I wonder how > it would scale to encode 8kHz.. We currently do a daily routine to > compress all ulaw files to mp3 at night time, and it takes ~6 hours of > processing on 1 CPU (no parallel processing). > > Regarding legal reasons, can't it be linked with lame within > asterisk-addons?
You're confusing licensing issues with patent issues. No, linking it to something else does not solve patent issues. -- Tilghman _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
