Re: Bug#785480: ITP: bcg729 -- ITU G.729 Annex A compatible audio codec
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 09:34:15AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2015, at 18:01, Felix Lechner wrote:
> > Bcg729 is an open source implementation of the ITU G729 Annex A
> > speech codec. Written in C 99, the library is fully portable. It
> > runs on many platforms, including ARM and x86.
> > .
> > Bcg729 supports concurrent channels encoding/decoding for multi
> > call application such as conferencing.
> > .
> > The project was developed as part of mediastreamer2, Linphone's
> > media processing engine. It also contains the glue forintegration
> > into Linphone/mediastreamer2.
>
> G.729 is a patent minefield, and some of them are actively enforced last
> time I checked.
>
> Has the situation changed?
This is an implementation of G.729A. The standard itself is roughly 20
years old. Any idea when the relevan patents expire?
According to [1]: 2015-2016
[1] http://lists.freeswitch.org/pipermail/freeswitch-users/2011-September/076527.html
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