>
> Stephane van Hardeveld schrieb:
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Klaus Darilion" 
>> <[email protected]>
>> To: "sip-implementors" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:29 AM
>> Subject: [Sip-implementors] asymmetric audio codecs
>>
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> For a certain application where uplink is low bandwidth and downlink is
>>> high bandwidth I want to use the best available codec - ie. up G729,
>>> down G.711.
>>>
>>> How can I setup such an asymmetric session?
>>>
>>> eg.
>>>        high down
>>> Alice ------------ Bob
>>>        up low
>>>
>>> I think if Alice announces G711 and G729, and Bob answers with G.729,
>>> Alice must send with G729 and Bob can send with G711 too. Is this 
>>> correct?
>>>
>>> Nevertheless, as this requires that Alice's SIP client support this. Is
>>> there also a method to explicitly define the asymmetric behavior?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Klaus
>>
>> You 'should' be able to indicate this with the recvonly and sendonly 
>> media attributes in the SDP.
>> However, not all SIP clients seem currently to support this feature 
>> correctly. See also:
>> rfc 3264, par. 5.1 Unicast streams, or rfc 4566, par. 6 SDP attributes:
>> quote:
>>    'a=recvonly
>>    This specifies that the tools should be started in receive-only mode 
>> where applicable. It can be either a session- or medialevel attribute, 
>> and it is not dependent on charset. Note that recvonly applies to the 
>> media only, not to any associated control protocol (e.g., an RTP-based 
>> system in recvonly mode SHOULD still send RTCP packets). '
>
> So I have to setup 2 unidirectional streams (one recvonly and one 
> sendonly) instead of a single bidirectional stream?
That  was my solution. Unfortunately, this is (not yet?) supported by the 
device I tested it against.

> I think this is even less supported :-(
>
I tend to agree, I have the same issue. However, by discussing it here we 
might get
some support...

Good luck!

Stephane van Hardeveld 

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