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From: sipx-dev-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org
[mailto:sipx-dev-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org] On Behalf Of Alfred Campbell
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 3:49 PM
To: Tony Graziano; sipx-dev@list.sipfoundry.org; Damian Krzeminski
Subject: Re: [sipX-dev] Voicemail media encoding from wav to mp3

> Separate process/system for encoding as a process server comes to
mind,
> which could be a virtual appliance somewhere... mp3 would really make
a
> lot of things easier and more agile in a mobile client
> (bb/iphone/windows mobile os).
> 

My BB and Palm both play Wav files BTW :) 

> >>> Damian Krzeminski <dkrze...@nortel.com> 08/11/09 5:47 PM >>>
> Andy Spitzer wrote:
> > Woof!
> >
> > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:58:08 -0400, Arjun Nair <ana...@nortel.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> would it be possible to switch that over to mp3?
> > Possible?  Yes.
> >
> > Gonna happen?  No.
> >
> > MP3 patents aside (and that is a BIG aside), encoding MP3 takes 100
> times more CPU effort than our current implementation.  Scale would
> suffer considerably.
> >
> > --Woof!
> >
> >
> 
> Not sure if we have a good alternative here. If we want to play it in
> the
> browser we probably need mp3 (I'll be happy to be proven wrong here).
> sipXconfig could of course encode it on demand (if we can solve a BIG
> aside
> problem) meaning that only the messages that are played would be
> encoded.
> But that of course does not really solve the scalability...
> Suggestions welcomed.
> D.
> 

I would agree, my blackberry plays wav files perfectly.  My wife's Windoze
Mobile does also.  But, for how long I guess is the question.  Hopefully
long enough for the license issue with MP3 to go away.......


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