[asterisk-dev] Upcoming work on console_video support

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 04:08:04PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> Hi all,
> just so you understand what is the point of some commits you might see,
> I wanted to give a bit of information on what we are doing here in Pisa,
> mostly related to console and video console support for Asterisk.
> 
> Our long term goal is to make asterisk usable as a flexible client
> for audio and video. So in the short term we are working on the
> following items:
> 
> 1. make asterisk run as a firefox extension.
> 
>    This is actually already working right now, and incredibly
>    simple to implement. I am polishing the (small) changes to chan_oss,
>    and then will add proper links to the external wrapper to handle this.

If someone wants to give this a try, the wrapper to run asterisk
(and other graphic apps) within firefox is available at

	http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/app-wrapper.html

In order to run asterisk in a window:
- build asterisk with console_video support.
  You need to have installed the following packages:
	libncurses-dev,
	libsdl1.2-dev, libsdl-image1.2-dev
	libavcodec-dev, libswcale-dev
  then apply this patch to channels/Makefile

Index: channels/Makefile
===================================================================
--- channels/Makefile   (revision 117400)
+++ channels/Makefile   (working copy)
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@
 
 $(if $(filter chan_oss,$(EMBEDDED_MODS)),modules.link,chan_oss.so): console_video.o vgrabbers.o console_board.o
 
+console_video.o vgrabbers.o console_board.o chan_oss.o: ASTCFLAGS+= -DHAVE_VIDEO_CONSOLE=1
 chan_usbradio.o: ./xpmr/xpmr.c ./xpmr/xpmr.h ./xpmr/xpmr_coef.h
 
 chan_usbradio.so: LIBS+=-lusb -lasound

- install asterisk, and copy images/kpad2.gif and images/font.png
  to /tmp

- modify oss.conf adding the following at the end:
	[general](+,my_video)
	    keypad = /tmp/kpad2.jpg
	    keypad_font = /tmp/font.png
	    startgui=1

- test asterisk running from the command line 'asterisk -vdc'
  you should see the gui coming up.

- install app-wrapper.so into ~/.mozilla/plugins
- write a file ~/.mozilla/plugins/app-wrapper.conf with this content
	application/x-asterisk:ast:embedded asterisk: /path/to/asterisk -vd

- create a local file /tmp/a.ast - it can be empty
- start firefox and point it to file:///tmp/a.ast

- for more info read the instructions at

	http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/app-wrapper.htm

cheers
luigi