[asterisk-users] I can do alaw, ulaw and gsm; remote can do g729 and alaw; asterisk wants to translate g729 -> alaw. WHY?

I am having a problem with one of my callers who is using either g729 or alaw.  I can do alaw but not g729 so asterisk should negotiate alaw right?  In fact from the sip debug it looks like it does, but then I get the dreaded "channel.c:5630 set_format: Unable to find a codec translation path:

[asterisk-users] Tip/Question about encoding temporary data for storage in Asterisk variable to use in AGI

I wanted to store a JSON object between agi requests for the duration of a call. Turns out asterisk does NOT like a stringified JSON object! AGI complains of "520-Invalid command syntax" So, I just base64 encode/decode it. Assuming I don't need to manipulate the JSON object within Asterisk itsel