Use Opus codec possible?

[4allbusiness]

Hi Freepbx,

We have found some information about the ‘relative new’ Opus codec.
This can be a good open-source replacement for g729, because it deals very good with high latency and packet loss (even till 30% packetloss).
Some call it ‘the all in one codec for the future’

Now I am having some troubles finding how I can compile this codec ino Asterisk. There is some documentation about a Asterisk Opus Patch, but that is related to Asterisk 11.1.2.

Does anyone know more about this codec or how to compile it into Asterisk?
Some information about Opus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)
Any help is welcome.

[tonyclewis (Tony Lewis)]

For legal reasons mainly GPL violations this has not been included. Please see http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2013-May/060419.html. I highly suggest you not get yourself into legal issues by trying to include opus.

[4allbusiness]

Thank you for the info.
Thats a pitty.
I will drop the search for Opus and Asterisk.
Ik hope it will ever be legal, because it sounds like a great codec.

[jfinstrom (James Finstrom)]

Just to follow up I talked to a member of the Asterisk dev team since that email was over a year old. The concerns have not been resolved and that email does reflect the current status of things.

[avayax (Johann Zurner)]

This is changing in Asterisk 14.
http://blogs.digium.com/2016/09/30/opus-in-asterisk/

[xrobau (Rob Thomas)]

Release of Asterisk 14 imminent, apparently

Asterisk 14 with opus is already available for those who are testing SNG7. Simply run ‘yum update’ and then ‘asterisk-version-switch’ and you’ll be able to switch to Asterisk 14. However, I’m going to be releasing a new ISO (beta2) very soon now (in the next couple of days) with some pretty important fixes, so if you’re not ALREADY running it, don’t bother 8) Edit: Opus will not be available on 6-based Distros in the immediate future, because of technical issues when compiling.