Incredible PBX 16-15 g729 - how to enable?

[markd89]

On my old Purple system, I paid for some g729 licenses. This was many years ago. I also bought one for CsipSimple. I still have more licenses than people ;-)

I'm now setting up a new 16-15 server and would like to have the option to run g729. I was under the impression that the patents for g729 had expired and it was freely useable. If it's not, I would be OK to move licenses from my old server or buy new ones if that's not doable.

Currently, when I try to use g729, I see errors like: "channel.c:5589 set_format: Unable to find a codec translation path: (gsm|g722|ulaw) -> (g729)"
core show codecs shows g729
in /usr/lib/asterisk/modules, I see codec_g729a.manifest.xml and codec_g729a.so

core show translation does not list g729

g729 show licenses
0/0 encoders/decoders of 0 licensed channels are currently in use

Side note https://superuser.com/questions/635...-should-i-choose-to-high-quality-calls#635815 says that Opus outperforms on narrowband and wideband connections and I can use that. I'd still like to have the option of g729.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Mark

 

[dallas]

Yes the g729 patents have expired. However... Sangoma still require you to purchase a license to run their version of g729 on Asterisk.
You can compile g729 using bcg729 and it works fine. I've just done it for asterisk 16 on Incredible 16-15.1.5 on Raspberry Pi.

There are plenty of instructions on the net. The latest bcg729 is here http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/linphone/plugins/sources/bcg729-1.0.2.tar.gz
and the latest asterisk source is here http://asterisk.hosting.lv/src/asterisk-g72x-1.4.3.tar.bz2

 

[markd89]

Thanks much!

I found g729 binaries here: http://asterisk.hosting.lv/ which seem to work. There's also g723.1. The instructions there worked, with the addition that the downloaded .so must be chmod +x

The recompiling, I'm sure, is the best way to go. I'd prefer not to use binaries from unknown sources but I didn't find an idiot-proof how-to on recompiling.

 

[dallas]

Thanks much!

I found g729 binaries here: http://asterisk.hosting.lv/ which seem to work. There's also g723.1. The instructions there worked, with the addition that the downloaded .so must be chmod +x

The recompiling, I'm sure, is the best way to go. I'd prefer not to use binaries from unknown sources but I didn't find an idiot-proof how-to on recompiling.

Those binaries are only for Intel architecture. Other architectures have to be compiled. I would use the binaries on Intel hardware.