Ian Darwin wrote:
There's a commercial binary-only g729 from Digium which I haven't
tried on OpenBSD (sometimes modules are portable between OS, e.g.
this works with some X drivers, or a least used to) but I'm not
sure if Asterisk is designed like that..
Annoyingly, that module itself seems to be able to run on OpenBSD (it
is an ELF dynamic shared library, and it says hello to Asterisk), but
the program
that you must run to register your $10 license fee ... does not run on
OpenBSD.
Since it ties into the MAC address, you MIGHT be able to kludge
around this by booting FreeBSD from a live CD on the * machine and
running the license
manager. I was about to try this when I got a good deal on a phone
that supported iLBC, so the alt-booting option became too much work.
There's some Intel code that could probably be ported across
though there are restrictions in what you can use it for (and istr
some hoops to get hold of the code in the first place)
and I'm not really sure whether it's suitable for the ports
tree (patents).
That said, I'm more interested in g729 than zt hardware..
Use iLBC instead :-) G729 would probably not make it into ports
because of the disturbing patent issues; if it did it would be with
FTP=no and CDROM=no.
Thanks, my problem is mainly the provider.
They have 2 options g729 or g711.
At the moment I'm chewing up bandwidth with g711.
Steve
