[asterisk-dev] SIP/H.324M Video Gateway

[Klaus Darilion]

Johansson Olle E schrieb:
> 18 feb 2009 kl. 09.02 skrev mbsip:
> 
>> I think this could be a good resource for you:
>> http://sip.fontventa.com/
>>
>> So it means that Asterisk do support H.324, am i right?
> 
> Asterisk does not support H.324. An Asterisk with patches and  
> additions from a third-party source does.
> 
> These patches are not official Asterisk patches. The problem here is  
> not  really technichal, but a matter
> of the definition of the product with the name "Asterisk" - which is  
> defined by Digium ;-)
> 
> What I would like to see moving forward is a proper H.324 integration  
> in chan_dahdi and libpri instead
> of tunneling the raw stuff through the whole PBX to an app that  
> converts it and sends the streams back.
> To me, this kinds of break the Asterisk architecture. It works, but  
> isn't scalable. Would be better to have
> the streams separated correctly before they're sent in to the core pbx.

So what about an H.324M call which is forwarded by Asterisk as H.324M. 
If the H324M is automatically decoded/encoded in chan_dahdi/libpri, 
chan_capi, chan_misdn, ... you double the delay of the video call.

Any ideas how to solve this?

regards
klaus

> 
> There was some development on this going on, but it stopped on the  
> issue of finding a properly licensed
> and working ASN.1 library with support for the encoding used.
> 
> While waiting for that, the work done by fontventa is quite amazing.
> 
> /O
> 
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