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Published inJul 2016
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ISBN-139781784398880
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Darren Schreiber
Darren Schreiber
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Darren Schreiber

Darren Schreiber is the CEO and Co-founder of 2600 Hz. He began working heavily in open source voice with the FreeSWITCH project, where he engaged with Brian, Mike, and Anthony. His projects have since evolved into two enterprise VoIP platforms that allow a multitude of development of voice, SMS, and video applications to be delivered to customers.He has 15 years of voice and IT experience including developing multiple enterprise SaaS infrastructures for hosting and remotely managing IT, voice, and e-commerce services. He is a guest lecturer at major universities on VoIP technology and leads paid international VoIP trainings. As a serious telephony enthusiast since a young age, he has worked extensively with VoIP technologies. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Computer Science and Business Management.He is also a co-author of FreeSWITCH Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
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FreeSWITCH audio, file, and stream formats


FreeSWITCH is able to interface automatically with a lot of codecs and file/stream formats, and it can translate between them. This means that a CD-like source at 48 khz, 16 bit, stereo and wideband will be decoded, downsampled, truncated, mixed, and then re-encoded to be sent in a G711 call.

Keeping with the general FreeSWITCH philosophy of do not reinvent the wheel, audio files and streams are read and written using open source libraries: FreeSWITCH has a specific API for audio formats; anyone can write a wrapper for a new sound format library and that format will be available everywhere in FS that a sound format is used (the same applies to codecs and to stream formats; just implement their FreeSWITCH's API).

This ensures the most efficient and timely support for new file formats and codecs (Brian West released FreeSWITCH's support for BroadVoice codec 40 minutes after it was open sourced).

Audio file formats

Most audio file formats are supported...

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Published in: Jul 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781784398880

Authors (8)

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Darren Schreiber

Darren Schreiber is the CEO and Co-founder of 2600 Hz. He began working heavily in open source voice with the FreeSWITCH project, where he engaged with Brian, Mike, and Anthony. His projects have since evolved into two enterprise VoIP platforms that allow a multitude of development of voice, SMS, and video applications to be delivered to customers.He has 15 years of voice and IT experience including developing multiple enterprise SaaS infrastructures for hosting and remotely managing IT, voice, and e-commerce services. He is a guest lecturer at major universities on VoIP technology and leads paid international VoIP trainings. As a serious telephony enthusiast since a young age, he has worked extensively with VoIP technologies. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Computer Science and Business Management.He is also a co-author of FreeSWITCH Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
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