[asterisk-users] Video on Hold?

[Gordon Henderson]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Russell Bryant wrote:

> k4rjj at bellsouth.net wrote:
>>   Is the idea to switch to another video source or stay with the callers
>> camera?  An option for both would be nice.  I could see a help desk
>> placing a caller in que and a 1-2 min video coming on showing some
>> simple video of "how to hook it up".
>
> What I had in mind was to play a video stream that went along with the
> on hold audio.  I was going to make it so if a video file was found with
> the same name as the audio file being played, it would play it.

I rather naively tried this :)

Well, Echo() was echoing back video and Record() was recording video and 
audio line this, and Playback() was playing it back, so ...

> If I understand you correctly, you're also suggesting echoing back the
> caller's video.  I'm not sure why that's useful, and it's also more
> difficult to implement with the current code.

Echo() currently does this for me (asterisk 1.2.30), but I guess you'd 
have to transfer the caller to an Echo() extension, then get them back 
again....

Gordon