[asterisk-users] The new ConfBridge application is now in Asterisk Trunk!

[Andrew Latham]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:27 AM, David Backeberg <dbackeberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:38 AM, David Vossel <dvossel at digium.com> wrote:
>> I am proud to announce that after a good bit of development, community feedback, testing, and >code review, the brand new ConfBridge application has been officially merged into Asterisk >Trunk!!! http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk?view=revision&revision=314598
>>
>> If you are already familiar with ConfBridge from Asterisk 1.6.X and 1.8, forget everything you >know.  This is a completely revamped, highly optimized, and feature rich conferencing >application capable of mixing sample rates from 8khz all the way up to 192khz!  Exciting right?!
>
> So way back when the 'old' ConfBridge was announced, my understanding
> was it was originally an internal Digium tool for exercising the
> Bridge() code and it was decided to release it to the public in the
> event the code might be useful to others. The old ConfBridge was
> missing stuff that was in MeetMe(), and wasn't that compelling for my
> particular usage.
>
> This 'new' ConfBridge looks to be much more full-featured. So can
> anybody explain the motivation for this? Is this a replacement for
> MeetMe() where at a certain point we envision dropping MeetMe() from
> the codebase?
>
> Does ConfBridge() scale to many users as nicely as MeetMe? I'm
> assuming the MeetMe ability to use a hardware source for timing will
> still be superior with large user counts in rooms?


David B.

The driving force was most likely HD audio in conferencing.

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