g729

[William]

Now that g729 is royalty free can it be included in the base image?

[Gernot]

Here we go:

apt-get update && apt-get install asterisk13-codecg729

Credits go to Rajib's excellent instructions, see here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/raspbx/discussion/general/thread/60bb4113/?limit=25&page=3#aa57

I've tested this on an old Pi1 and it took around 17% cpu for the transcoding. Sound quality was good as well. Please test it yourself and give some feedback.

[zeler christian]

G729 is not royalty free and can't be inculded in any distribution, only a tutorial to do it is tolerated
Mark Spencer has offered a complete telephony server but just kept a paid feature as livelihood.
Ian Murdock gave his life for freedom and for eploitation system you use.
My side I often make small contributions to large free software that I use, and these small contributions do not make a big hole in my budget.

[VoIPuser]

WRONG!!!

"As of January 1, 2017 the patent terms of most Licensed Patents under the G.729 Consortium have expired, the remaining unexpired patents are usable on a royalty-free basis.[7] Thus, G.729 can be used free-of-charge."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.729 which is quoting from http://www.sipro.com/G729.html

Given the preachy tone of your post, you owe the OP a big fat apology!!!

[zeler christian]

Yes you are true for the preachy tone, sometime it happen to me, I think I'm a god, especially late in the night, but after a night of sleep everything is better :-)
Thanks for this great information !

[Geners]

not load module :(

Connected to Asterisk 13.15.0 currently running on 123 (pid = 10062)
123*CLI> module load codec_g729.so
Unable to load module codec_g729.so
Command 'module load codec_g729.so' failed.
[2017-04-20 20:44:19] WARNING[15116]: loader.c:556 load_dynamic_module: Error loading module 'codec_g729.so': libbcg729.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[2017-04-20 20:44:19] WARNING[15116]: loader.c:1090 load_resource: Module 'codec_g729.so' could not be loaded.

[Gernot]

I'm sorry for this bug. I've added the missing library and updated the repository, you can get the codec with:

apt-get update && apt-get install asterisk13-codecg729

[Geners]

Many thanks

[carriba]

Above looks very good. Any chance to get the bespoken library also available for Asterisk 11 running on Raspbian Wheezy (using a Raspberry Pi 1 B+)?

Im following the instructions Compiling G.729 for RasPBX, however do not seem to get it running with.

Any pointer appreciated, and will look into this further...