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 tr…

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.

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.

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.

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

[image] 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 ne…

Use Opus codec possible?

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xrobau (Rob Thomas) October 7, 2016, 7:31pm 6