On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 03:43:33 -0500 (CDT), Jeff Brower wrote: <snip>
>> MELPe is patent encumbered, > >Not if used for govt/defense purposes. For commercial-only purposes, TI will >waive royalty fees if their chip is used >in the product. It would have been nice if Digium had considered the many >advantages of using a DSP pioneer such as >TI before putting a Mindspeed chip on their TC400B card. > >> so there is still a place for LPC10 [...] > >I haven't seen an LPC10 implementation with MOS higher than 2.5. Due to its >age and expiration of patents, LPC10 >might be a basis for a 2400 bps open source codec. But enormous improvement >would be needed to come close to MELPe >performance. > >-Jeff I wonder where David Rowe's newer CODEC2 fits into this discussion? (http://codec2.org/) Clearly it's not implemented anywhere yet, but it may prove yet useful in very bandwidth constrained applications. Oh yes. It's completely open source and should not be subject to patent issues. Michael -- Michael Graves mgraves<at>mstvp.com http://www.mgraves.org o713-861-4005 c713-201-1262 sip:[email protected] skype mjgraves Twitter mjgraves -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
