On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:40:44 -0500, Michael Graves wrote: >On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 03:43:33 -0500 (CDT), Jeff Brower wrote: > ><snip> > >>> MELPe is patent encumbered, >> >>Not if used for govt/defense purposes. For commercial-only purposes, TI will >>waive royalty fees if their chip is used >>in the product. It would have been nice if Digium had considered the many >>advantages of using a DSP pioneer such as >>TI before putting a Mindspeed chip on their TC400B card. >> >>> so there is still a place for LPC10 [...] >> >>I haven't seen an LPC10 implementation with MOS higher than 2.5. Due to its >>age and expiration of patents, LPC10 >>might be a basis for a 2400 bps open source codec. But enormous improvement >>would be needed to come close to MELPe >>performance. >> >>-Jeff > >I wonder where David Rowe's newer CODEC2 fits into this discussion? >(http://codec2.org/) > >Clearly it's not implemented anywhere yet, but it may prove yet useful >in very bandwidth constrained applications. Oh yes. It's completely >open source and should not be subject to patent issues. > >Michael
The more appropriate link should have been http://www.rowetel.com/blog/?page_id=452 Michael -- Michael Graves mgraves<at>mstvp.com http://www.mgraves.org o713-861-4005 c713-201-1262 sip:mgra...@mstvp.onsip.com skype mjgraves Twitter mjgraves -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
