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> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Krzeminski, Damian (BL60:9D30)
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 12:09 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [sipX-dev] codec configuration
> 
> Bogdan is working on 
> http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XX-5492, which is just a 
> first step in providing a more user friendly way of 
> configuring codecs.
> Currently every managed device has a different way of 
> configuring codecs.
> That's because sipXconfig plug-ins closely follow device's 
> data models.
> 
> We want to improve it in two ways:
> (1) by providing a better UI that plug-ins can use to offer 
> codecs configuration (that's what XX-5492 is about)
> (2) by providing a central place that administrator can use 
> to configure a default list of codecs for all devices (that's 
> _not_ XX-5492)
> 
> Paul and I exchanged some ideas on the list about problem (2):
> I had this naive vision that sipXconfig will query all the 
> plug-ins construct a full list of all the codecs and then 
> will let administrator to select which codecs and in which 
> order should be used.
> 
> Once admin decides that, sipXconfig will - for each device 
> and service separately - translate the global list into 
> what's supported for a specific device or service; raising 
> red flags if it turns out that the intersection of desired 
> and supported lists is empty.
> 
> We would probably still need to allow for overwriting the 
> global list on a per-device (and group) basis. One use case I 
> can think of: codec X has a buggy implementation on a 
> specific device; admin wants to allow it in general but not 
> for that device type.

A more common use case would be a far-away remote worker with a very
modest internet connection.  Such a user would want to restrict itself
to using the codecs that provide highest compression.


> 
> Does that seem like a reasonable approach?

It does.
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