IP Office Softphone - Codec selection

[beast72]

Hi guys!

IPO 9.0.4:
I have a collague who sits in Canada. Because his internet connection isn't the best we thought to use only codec g729 for his softphone (where the 9608 sets here in Austria use g711).

Nothing easier than that, I thought and tried to set the codec for the Softphone. But softphone doesn't use a defined extension (e.g. extension 100 for user 100 as normal h323 phones do), IP Office creates a temorary one on login, which will be gone after softphone logs out. It isn't possible to set codecs there anyway (everything is greyed out). I think in earlier days softphone used defined extensions, but anyway...
To get this working (Softphone using g729, 9608s using g711) I thought to set system default to g729 as first choice and at each phone's extension g711 as sole choice. I guess this would work but I don't like the solution very much (Changing the norm every time (new phone) instead of the exception).
Does anybody have an idea to solve this better? Is there somewhere a (hidden) setting to set a specific codec for softphones only?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Markus

 

[sizbut]

Not played with it so I don't know what it actually changes but you can select a "Low Bandwidth" option from the Softphone login menu.

Stuck in a never ending cycle of file copying.

 

[beast72]

Thanks for your reply.
That option seems to have no effect - softphone is still using g711.

 

[tlpeter]

Do you have G.729 as a codec selected in the codec list of the IPOffice?
If not then it will never try to use it.

BAZINGA!

I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

 

[beast72]

Sure, g711, g729 and the more or less useless codec g722 are available.

 

[derfloh]

I know about a section in 46xxsettings.txt for Softphone but didn't ever try it.

Regards

 

[amriddle01]

Softphones don't pull that file, so will have no effect