Re: [Freeswitch-users] Choosing a Codec.

2009-12-23 Thread Anthony Minessale
It's more than highly likely you have some other problem like jitter or a bad network connection. Not many people would be able to tell the difference between the sound of an 8k PCM file and the same file encoded to G711 just by listening to it unless there was a severe problem somewhere. Since yo

Re: [Freeswitch-users] Choosing a Codec.

2009-12-23 Thread Brian West
VMD will force a transcode anyway too. /b On Dec 23, 2009, at 1:08 AM, Vinuth Madinur wrote: > My setup is as follows: > > FreeSWITCH -> SIP Trunk -> PSTN. > > From freeswitch, I'm making outbound calls using event socket via the > "external" profile. Except for the ext_rtp_ip and ext_sip_ip

Re: [Freeswitch-users] Choosing a Codec.

2009-12-23 Thread Steve Underwood
On 12/23/2009 11:29 AM, David Knell wrote: > On the other hand, a u-law WAV turned into L16 and then back to u-law to > be sent down the line shouldn't suffer any alteration at all - if it > does, the there's something wrong with the translation. > > The quality dropping over time is almost certain

Re: [Freeswitch-users] Choosing a Codec.

2009-12-22 Thread Vinuth Madinur
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:17 PM, David Knell wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 23:52 -0500, Michael Jerris wrote: > > That being said, ulaw l16 alaw will cause degredation and any other > > modifications such as volume adjustment in this path will make it > > worse. > > Indeed. Storing prompts > a

Re: [Freeswitch-users] Choosing a Codec.

2009-12-22 Thread Vinuth Madinur
My setup is as follows: FreeSWITCH -> SIP Trunk -> PSTN. >From freeswitch, I'm making outbound calls using event socket via the "external" profile. Except for the ext_rtp_ip and ext_sip_ip, everything is default settings. Using "playback" application, I'm playing a mu-law audio. I'm also starting

Re: [Freeswitch-users] Choosing a Codec.

2009-12-22 Thread David Knell
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 23:52 -0500, Michael Jerris wrote: > That being said, ulaw l16 alaw will cause degredation and any other > modifications such as volume adjustment in this path will make it > worse. Indeed. Storing prompts as 8k, 16-bit WAVs makes a lot of sense. [I am inordinately ple

Re: [Freeswitch-users] Choosing a Codec.

2009-12-22 Thread Michael Jerris
That being said, ulaw l16 alaw will cause degredation and any other modifications such as volume adjustment in this path will make it worse. Tha being said that does not sound like what you are experiencing Mike On Dec 22, 2009, at 10:29 PM, David Knell wrote: > On the other hand, a u-la

Re: [Freeswitch-users] Choosing a Codec.

2009-12-22 Thread EdPimentl
Have you considered GIPS http://www.gipscorp.com/products/overview.php ? -E ___ FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mai

Re: [Freeswitch-users] Choosing a Codec.

2009-12-22 Thread David Knell
On the other hand, a u-law WAV turned into L16 and then back to u-law to be sent down the line shouldn't suffer any alteration at all - if it does, the there's something wrong with the translation. The quality dropping over time is almost certainly down to something else. Vinuth -can you get a re

Re: [Freeswitch-users] Choosing a Codec.

2009-12-22 Thread Brian West
If its degrading like that you have bigger issues... the sound files played from wav files vs raw PCM files is NO different on a land line and I speak from very many years of experience... your wav files are ulaw in wav containers thus will never play native which might just be part of your prob

Re: [Freeswitch-users] Choosing a Codec.

2009-12-22 Thread Vinuth Madinur
The audio quality is a lot different when it plays on the landline. And the quality degrades a bit when the message played is lengthy >30s. So I thought it would be better if I have the file in mu-law and play it as is.. Thanks, Vinuth. On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Brian West wrote: > Why?

Re: [Freeswitch-users] Choosing a Codec.

2009-12-22 Thread Brian West
Why? You don't have to avoid it... why bother? /b On Dec 22, 2009, at 4:28 PM, Vinuth Madinur wrote: > My basic intent is to avoid on-the-fly transcoding, while having a high > quality audio playing on PSTN. ___ FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSW

[Freeswitch-users] Choosing a Codec.

2009-12-22 Thread Vinuth Madinur
Hi, I am playing a file to a landline number. the format of the file is as follows: [r...@static-host var]# file message.wav message.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, ITU G.711 mu-law, mono 8000 Hz In my vars.xml file I have used the following codec prefs: However, when freeswitch