[asterisk-users] Video codecs: H263 & H264

[Jonas Kellens]

On 12/08/2010 02:48 PM, Alex Saavedra wrote:
> Jonas,
>
> I've been using H.264 and H.263+ with a few Grandstream GVX3140. When 
> using H.264 the image quality was better, and required bandwidth 
> appeared lower compared with H.263+. In fact H.264 is expected to 
> consume less bandwidth for as much as 50% (according to Wikipedia). 
> Note however that when configuring bandwidth limits inside Asterisk 
> (maxcallbitrate directive) I saw no effect on client devices. Only 
> client configuration succeeded (v 1.6.2.7 here).
>
> I kept H.263+ only for compatibility reasons when using X-Lite 
> softphone (no support for H.264).
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex Saavedra

Do you use H263 and H264 together on a peer ?

Because when I define :

allow=h263
allow=h264

there is no video.

I can only allow 1 video-codec on a peer...

Jonas.
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