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[Buddy Brannan]

Rewrite of a codec? Hmm, I’m intrigued. 
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Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY



On Sep 8, 2013, at 8:16 PM, Bryan D. Boyle <bdboyle at bdboyle.com> wrote:

> On 9/8/2013 4:38 PM, Buddy Brannan wrote:
>> I agree that this is a great feature that Xipar has. Also subjective, and I don’t know what they’re doing differently, but I have an easier time with level adjustments with Xipar (the automatic level setting for rxnoise seems to work a bit better), and at least on my radios, audio “sounds” better, better being kind of relative, yes, I understand that. However, it looks like xipar is missing a couple things that main line acide distro has, I mean besides that acid works with Allstar’s autopatch and dial-in service without additional fiddling. Doesn’t appear Xipar has the provision for recording or streaming from app_rpt. Also, it looks like ID pitch and volume are fixed (and a bit lo of my taste), and the echo link channel driver didn’t compile last time I tried a beta of it several months ago. And i at least don’t really need or want Freepbx. So, until or unless Echolink gets worked out along with streaming/recording, I’m sticking with acid, even in spite of some of xipar’s
>  real a
> dvantages. 
>> --
> 
> You know, what's interesting, is the different focus of the two and how
> they've developed on parallel, but, in some respects, divergent paths:
> open source is like that.
> 
> I think a couple things, from my standpoint, that I'd like to see in
> acid would be including DCS as an option for coded squelch.  IIRC, XIPAR
> has it.  That, and the variable audio level features Kevin described.
> Other than that?  Both are viable, excellent programs that address a
> need...you pays your money, you takes your chances.
> 
> So, they're both good; guess it just comes down to what you need to do,
> how you addressed it with what tools you had at the time, and how much
> pain it would be to migrate (though, to tell the truth, I'd like to try
> WN3A's rewrite of one of the codecs...I hear the quality is superb...)
> 
> Bryan
> 
> 
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