On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 05:25:48PM +0000, Jonathan H wrote: > Hmm, as it's free and open, I wonder why opus isn't a core codec?
Digium seems to have some concerns regarding patent issues with Opus. As such it will not distribute Opus. Rather, it will only distribute a binary build of such a codec, that comes with a number of strings attached, even thought a price tag for the end user is not one of them. I am not a lawyer. I don't know of any specific secret information Digium's lawyers may know about specific patents that may be an issue here. I'll just point out that many companies, including the one I work for the company I work for see no issue with using it and find no patent issue here. As such we use an external patch. See https://github.com/traud/asterisk-opus . Packages of Asterisk in any major distribution include this patch or equivalents. (Same should go for wp8 and wp9, and av1 in the future, if you care about video) -- Tzafrir Cohen +972-50-7952406 mailto:[email protected] http://www.xorcom.com -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- Check out the new Asterisk community forum at: https://community.asterisk.org/ New to Asterisk? Start here: https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Getting+Started asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
