Tom van der Geer wrote: >> If you want to play announcement without transcoding, you can use >> those files with the precoded_announce plugin. >> >> otherwise, you need to encode them to sems' internal format: signed >> linear 16 bit 8 khz wav files. transcoding into g711 (PCMA or PCMU) >> does not take much processing power. >> >> Stefan >> > Ok, I understand! > They main reason for taking care of the transcoding myself is not the > processing cycles used for transcoding. I'm not to worried about that > (We have plenty nowadays :-)) The real reason is the (lack of control > on) quality degradation in the transcoding process from signed linear 16 > bit 8 khz to G.711. Do you have any idea how SEMS performs in this area? > SEMS is not worse than any other on that matter. Transcoding is always a pain. On the other side, 8kHz G.711 is such a low quality that there is actually nothing to screw up....
-Raphael. > Best regards, > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > Sems mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.iptel.org/mailman/listinfo/sems > _______________________________________________ Sems mailing list [email protected] http://lists.iptel.org/mailman/listinfo/sems
