-----Original Message----- 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....... _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list sipx-dev@list.sipfoundry.org List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/