i've asked in fs-users for help understanding the licensingfor mp3/mod_shout.
ogg is horrible for so many end user reasons... On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:30 AM, M. Ranganathan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Tony Graziano > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Martin Steinmann <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Tony Graziano >>>><[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Good to know. It certainly varies site to site. I think Ranga was >>>>> considering conference recordings, so a 90 minute recording could >>>>> easily be around 100MB (+/-). 10 per month is a gig, and 12 months is >>>>> 12GB. So depending upon use cases, I see how it could get very large >>>>> indeed. >>>> >>>>10 conferences per month is easy to envision. >>>> >>>>Perhaps a good middle ground could be that voicemail is not compressed >>>>whereas conference recordings are compressed. Another middle ground >>>>could be to run an archiver that compresses conference recordings and >>>>voice mails after a few days. If the user wanted to play archived >>>>recordings, he would need to download them, unzip and play. >>>> >>>>Ranga >>> >>> Maybe I am missing something, but why zip? The proposed user experience to >>> download, unzip and then listen seems very cumbersome. There are so many >>> compression techniques invented for audio, why not use one of them? >>> --martin >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Does anyone have a way to ask the guys at FS how they comply (or >> don't) with the MP3 licensing with mod_shout? >> >> I agree and understand the need to save space. I just wonder why we'd >> not combine two needs into one instead of using a different method for >> each purpose. >> >> If it is compressed in any type of zip format, then the file stays >> larger and gets transported around multiple places (email, web sites >> hosts, etc.), and then consumes that much more in storage space and >> bandwidth wherever it is used every time it is accessed. >> >> MP3 will also solve some issues with the embedded audio file in >> sipxconfig UI, because I believe both firefox and IE would be able to >> use the embedded code to play those voicemails, though right now just >> firefox can. > > > That is exactly the problem with mp3. I believe OGG may be a better > choice because of patent issues and but I am but I am not certain if > both browsers support it. > > > As for zipping, it would only be done for archiving and the admin can > decide the archiving policy. Yes it would be cumbersome. It would > involve the additional step of unzipping (either at the server or the > client) before listening to audio but it would only apply for archived > files. > > Ranga > >> >> The same method (which already exists) can be used to play conference >> MP3's and actually be "available" to more devices than a WAV file. At >> least, this is what i think. >> -- >> ====================== >> Tony Graziano, Manager >> Telephone: 434.984.8430 >> sip: [email protected] >> Fax: 434.984.8431 >> >> Email: [email protected] >> >> LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk: >> Telephone: 434.984.8426 >> sip: [email protected] >> Fax: 434.984.8427 >> >> Helpdesk Contract Customers: >> http://www.myitdepartment.net/gethelp/ >> >> Why do mathematicians always confuse Halloween and Christmas? >> Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. >> > > > > -- > M. Ranganathan > -- ====================== Tony Graziano, Manager Telephone: 434.984.8430 sip: [email protected] Fax: 434.984.8431 Email: [email protected] LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk: Telephone: 434.984.8426 sip: [email protected] Fax: 434.984.8427 Helpdesk Contract Customers: http://www.myitdepartment.net/gethelp/ Why do mathematicians always confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] 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/
